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We all take care
Environmental Protection and Occupational Safety
The Freudenberg Group and its family shareholders feel a particular commitment towards protecting the environment and ensuring the health and safety of associates. This sense of responsibility is part of Freudenberg’s corporate culture and firmly anchored in the Guiding Principles of the Group. In addition, the topic has top priority with the Management Board.
The “We all take care" initiative was born of this commitment and encourages every single associate to contribute his/her ideas and suggestions for improvement, thus generating a culture in which everyone feels a responsibility for safety at work and environmental protection.
Annual awards presented for outstanding projects motivate individual teams to identify with health and safety at the workplace and the protection of the environment. Positive contributions can be emulated, thus bringing continuous improvements for the entire company. Freudenberg has had a low accident rate compared with the industry sector for many years. And it is no coincidence that the accident rate in the Freudenberg Group has fallen steadily over the last few years.
The situation with regard to environmental protection is a similar one. Many of the company’s environmental measures go well beyond the legal requirements. Well over half of the Freudenberg Group’s production sites around the world have already been certified to ISO 14001 – and all sites will soon have received this international certification.