ÖBB Annual Report 2023

Group Management Report 164 Österreichische Bundesbahnen-Holding Aktiengesellschaft Consolidated Financial Statements | Group Management Report 119 Work ability and health Management approach The employees are ÖBB’s most important resource. As a result, an agreement on workplace health promotion measures was reached with the Works Council in 2007. Their aim is to maintain and promote the ability to work and the health of all ÖBB employees. To this end, working conditions are to be continuously improved, personal resources optimised and stress reduced. This makes a substantial contribution to increasing the attractiveness of the company as an employer and contributes value to the company’s success. The implementation is conducted by the occupational health management (OHM), which underwent a structural relocation in 2022. The tasks of occupational health and safety management were consolidated in the newly created Work Ability and Health Solution Centre at ÖBB-Business Competence Center GmbH (ÖBB-BCC GmbH). This is an in-house counselling service for managers on the topics of “fitness for work” and “health”. Its content is managed by a multi- professional team. It consists of the Chief Medical Officer and experts from the specialist disciplines of psychology, case management, health promotion and data science. The measures are implemented by a team of advisors on fitness for work and health that is organised regionally throughout Austria. The consultants are available to the managers in ÖBB’s national market with their expertise on a “one-face-to-customer” basis or provide them with proactive support. The mission of the new Work Ability and Health Solution Centre is summarised as follows: – Innovation: Work is made healthy and people, technology and organisation are harmonised with the help of data- and evidence-based occupational health management. This takes place with the support of experts from the Work Ability and Health Solution Centre. This process requires active dialogue with the safety experts in the ÖBB Group. – Creating trust and building relationships: The regional organisation of the Work Ability and Health Solution Centre creates a high presence and visibility in the area. This makes it possible to tailor the wide range of services and offers to the needs of the target groups. This promotes the competence of ÖBB managers and employees in the health domain. – High level of expertise in counselling: The local regional contacts work closely with the multi-professional team to support employees in maintaining, promoting and restoring their ability to work and their health. This ensures that all managers in the ÖBB Group have direct and competent access to advice. The content is based on the quality criteria of the “Network for Workplace Health Promotion”. The focus topics are maintaining, promoting and restoring the ability to work as well as the strategic and operational integration of health management in the ÖBB Group. GRI 403-1, 403-6 Key figures at a glance 2023 2022 Participants in healthy leadership and addiction prevention 258 168 Number of employees who have taken advantage of occupational reintegration (BWE) 680 797 Targets in the area of health – ÖBB is strengthening the work ability and health of all employees by further developing working conditions, building up resources and reducing potentially health-threatening stress. – Another task of health management is the technical and organisational managing of issues arising from the interface function with Wellcon / occupational medicine. This includes the organisation of vaccinations as well as planning and reporting, accounting and the clearing of annual prevention periods and ÖBB32 fitness examinations. GRI 403-3 | MR119