AGRANA as an employer

The topics of workplace health and safety are of great importance to AGRANA. The workplace health and safety officers and safety specialists are responsible for ensuring compliance with all occupational health and safety measures prescribed by law or instituted by the company. These include, for example, both regular and event-driven hazard identification and risk assessment, the development of improvement measures, the organization of occupational health and safety training and the analysis, documentation and communication of actual occupational accidents.

In addition to legally required local occupational health and safety measures and reporting obligations, AGRANA Group has for many years collected monthly, standardized worldwide data on workplace health and safety. These statistics serve to improve the Group-wide comparability and analysis of occupational accidents and form the basis for the development of improvement measures and targets under the programs in the business segments.

Under the AGRANA Fit program, with the goal of maintaining and improving employees’ health and wellness, AGRANA in many locations offers preventive health check-ups and/or vaccinations (for influenza, tick-borne encephalitis, titre testing, etc.) as part of the routine occupational health services. Furthermore, some locations have individual arrangements with local health care organizations and fitness facilities.

AGRANA offers its employees numerous sporting activities, such as running groups, back fitness training, badminton, rowing courses, Zumba toning, high-intensity interval training, fitness boxing, Nordic walking, yoga, Pilates and boot camp courses. Alongside the wide variety of numerous health and sports opportunities, the Group sites also provide many workshops for employee information, sensitization and continuing development in the areas of work-life balance, stress reduction, burnout prevention, and for the right ergonomics in the workplace.

Harmonizing the demands of work and family is important to AGRANA from a social responsibility perspective and plays a prominent role in its human resources strategy. AGRANA thus joined the “Business for Family” network of the Federal Ministry for Family and Youth.

Across the Group, this is reflected in several initiatives and offerings for employees. Teleworking, funding or even direct provision of child care in certain locations (including special offers during the holidays), flexible working hours, and a parent-child office at the Vienna headquarters are all part of this effort. In addition, employees’ families are included in various events, group meals and sports activities.