For GIZ, our staff members are the most important factor in our success as a company. As such, we attach great importance to maintaining and promoting their health, safety and performance. Health management at GIZ is holistic in nature, covering the everyday working environment as well as assignments in challenging regions around the world.
Health and safety in the workplace
From Ethiopia to Belgium to China, we promote and protect the health of our employees in their everyday working environments and ensure their safety when on foreign assignment.
Staying healthy in daily working life
We provide a wide range of services to promote good health among our employees, from classic workplace health and safety and active health care to advising teams on optimising the way they organise their work. We provide targeted support to help employees achieve a healthy work-life balance, including childcare and advice on caring for relatives.
Our employees can take advantage of regular check-ups and participate in other periodic health initiatives, such as annual flu vaccinations. We offer a broad range of health courses, while specialist contacts are on hand around the clock to advise on acute emergencies over the phone.
Safe and secure on foreign assignment
In an international context in particular, GIZ takes extensive measures to guarantee the safety and security of its employees and their families. Preventative security measures are essential in many countries of assignment due to political instability, weak infrastructure and the risk posed by natural disasters.
‘We ensure that GIZ can carry on its work without any issues even in fragile contexts.’
These include forward-looking risk analyses, mandatory safety and security training, and the presence of full-time security risk managers in countries with high risk potential. In high-risk locations, the local security risk management team provides a 24-hour on-call service.
In the event of a crisis, a professional crisis management mechanism will be deployed that is capable of responding to events and situations around the world.
