Material impacts, risks and opportunities
The following impacts, opportunities and risks were identified for HHLA’s workforce The materiality assessment revealed that all HHLA workforce members are equally affected by the negative material impacts.
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Working conditions |
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Health and safety |
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Protecting health and well-being through safe working conditions in all of our business areas contributes to increasing the motivation and satisfaction of our employees in the short, medium and long term, thereby promoting their commitment. |
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Despite high safety measures, isolated, unavoidable work-related accidents occur in the short, medium and long term, affecting our own workforce. |
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Maintaining secure jobs in our own business activities leads to economic stability and quality of life in the short, medium and long term. |
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Working hours |
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Adequate wages |
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Collective bargaining, including the percentage of workers covered by collective agreements |
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Work-life balance |
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Equal treatment and equal opportunities |
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Training and skills development |
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Strengthening a learning-oriented environment, cooperation and the satisfaction of our own workforce in all areas of business promotes motivation and employability in the short, medium and long term. |
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Risk: The lack of qualifications or further training of our own employees at locations in Hamburg may have a negative financial impact in the short, medium and long term due to reduced productivity, customer complaints and legal violations. |
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As an employer, HHLA is committed to offering its own workforce collectively agreed working conditions. Health and safety, secure employment, working time, adequate wages, collective bargaining agreements and work-life balance are seen as key levers to ensure employees’ standard of living. HHLA Inside (intranet) and the use of state-of-the-art communication tools such as Microsoft Teams within the HHLA Group are designed to facilitate cross-location and cross-border collaboration and knowledge sharing among employees and increase transparency within the organisation. HHLA offers extensive training opportunities, such as Lernen@HHLA at its Hamburg location to improve the employability of HHLA employees. In order to promote a safe working environment, prevent accidents at work and ensure humane working conditions, the legally required occupational safety briefings and trainings are conducted regularly throughout the Group.
It is not possible to eliminate accidents at work entirely, despite comprehensive preventive measures, constant monitoring and ongoing improvements to working conditions. Accidents are not necessarily caused by one-off unusual events; they can occur during people’s daily work activities due to incidents such as tripping, slipping or twisting an ankle.
Programmes and sessions to ensure ongoing training and skills development are also an integral part of HR work and a key prerequisite for HHLA’s success. Currently, the CTX transformation programmes that are being implemented in Hamburg are having the greatest impact on employees there. The programmes will bundle what are currently decentralised terminal companies to create one cross-terminal organisational and management structure. Further development and innovation/efficiency programme at the Hamburg container terminals
The new centralised structure is intended to enable synergies to be leveraged by sharing knowledge, experience and resources across terminals in the future. Targeted personnel development measures will equip employees with the skills they need to cope with the changes associated with the transformation process, such as digitalised processes and new working and overall conditions. This concerns employees in the Container segment as well as the holding areas at the Hamburg location. The changes in working and overall conditions and the associated personnel development measures not only have a positive impact on value creation, but also foster interdisciplinary cooperation and staff employability in the medium term.