Foreword
Social indicators
 Employees |
Diversity in management |
| Occupational injuries |
Further training and continuing education |
As at December 31, 2005 the Bayer Group employed 93,700 people worldwide. Adjusted to take account of the Lanxess spin-off, this equates to 2,000 more than at the start of the year. The average number of employees rose to approximately 93,000. Personnel expenses fell by 1.9 percent in 2005 to EUR 5,912 million. This corresponds to 21.6 percent of sales. Value added per employee rose to EUR 102,487.
Employees by region and subgroup1
| Employees by region | 2004 |
2005 |
| Europe | 51,400 |
52,400 |
| North America | 17,800 |
16,200 |
| Asia Pacific | 12,200 |
13,900 |
| Latin America/Africa/Middle East | 10,300 |
11,200 |
| Bayer Group | 91,700 |
93,700 |
| Employees by subgroup/service company | ||
| Bayer HealthCare | 32,100 |
33,800 |
| Bayer CropScience | 19,400 |
18,800 |
| Bayer MaterialScience | 17,900 |
18,800 |
| Bayer Business Services2 | 8,400 |
8,800 |
| Bayer Technology Services | 2,100 |
2,100 |
| Bayer Industry Services3 | 11,300 |
10,900 |
| Bayer Corporate Center | 500 |
500 |
| Bayer Group | 91,700 |
93,700 |
1) excluding Lanxess and plasma business
2) incl. Local Services and trainee pool
3) incl. trainees
2) incl. Local Services and trainee pool
3) incl. trainees
| Percentage of senior managerial* positions held by women in the Bayer Group | 3.9% |
| Nationalities in senior management at the Bayer Group | 17 |
* All positions in the Group Leadership Circle are classed as senior managerial positions. This equates to approx. 330
employees in the Bayer Group. The Group Leadership Circle consists of managers in the holding company, subgroups
and service companies whose functions are particularly important for the Bayer Group as a whole.
employees in the Bayer Group. The Group Leadership Circle consists of managers in the holding company, subgroups
and service companies whose functions are particularly important for the Bayer Group as a whole.
| Further training and continuing education costs as a percentage of personnel costs | 2.3% |
Personnel expenditure in 2005 amounted to EUR 5.9 billion. With 2.3 percent of this total being devoted to further training and continuing education measures, approximately EUR 140 million was spent on long-term staff development, which equates to approximately EUR 1,500 for each individual.
A key indicator here is the number of injuries with days lost. In 2005, the quota for such injuries was unchanged on the previous year at 2.7 injuries for every million hours worked. Also included in these statistics are injuries affecting staff on fixed-term contracts, part-time staff and contractors who report directly to Bayer line managers.
Reportable injuries include all injuries that require medical treatment that extends beyond First Aid. All injuries are counted, whether they give rise to days lost or not. This means that these injuries include both less serious injuries and injuries that do give rise to days lost (these usually being more severe injuries). This figure, which has been recorded at all sites since 2003, was 4.1 in 2005 (2004: 4.7).
There was a clear increase in the number of working hours of contractors at Bayer Group sites during 2005, primarily due to the building work at the Caojing site in China. The number of occupational injuries affecting contractors was nevertheless more or less the same as in the previous year. The data provide information on occupational injuries affecting employees from external companies that are not directly responsible to Bayer staff. Injuries in this case are only counted if they result in at least one day’s absence from work.
Reportable injuries include all injuries that require medical treatment that extends beyond First Aid. All injuries are counted, whether they give rise to days lost or not. This means that these injuries include both less serious injuries and injuries that do give rise to days lost (these usually being more severe injuries). This figure, which has been recorded at all sites since 2003, was 4.1 in 2005 (2004: 4.7).
There was a clear increase in the number of working hours of contractors at Bayer Group sites during 2005, primarily due to the building work at the Caojing site in China. The number of occupational injuries affecting contractors was nevertheless more or less the same as in the previous year. The data provide information on occupational injuries affecting employees from external companies that are not directly responsible to Bayer staff. Injuries in this case are only counted if they result in at least one day’s absence from work.
Occupational injuries suffered by Bayer employees and resulting in absence from work
(injuries for every million hours worked)
(injuries for every million hours worked)
Occupational injuries suffered by Bayer employees requiring medical treatment
(reportable injuries, injuries for every million hours worked)
(reportable injuries, injuries for every million hours worked)
Occupational injuries resulting in days lost suffered by contractors
(injuries for every million hours worked)
(injuries for every million hours worked)
Fatal occupational injuries
There were four cases of fatal work-related injuries at Bayer in 2005, resulting in the deaths of three Bayer employees and one employee from an external company. Two sales employees were killed in a traffic accident in Turkey, one employee died in an accident involving a lathe in Dormagen, and in Baytown (Texas, United States) an employee of one of our contractors died as a result of phenol poisoning.
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005* |
|
| Fatal occupational injuries | 3 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
4 |
| Bayer employees | 2 |
0 |
1 |
5** |
3 |
| ontractors’ employees | 1 |
1 |
1 |
2** |
1 |
* Bayer excluding Lanxess
** including one injury at Lanxess
** including one injury at Lanxess
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