Support for young people and upcoming talents
Every year, the Hans Hörmann Foundation supports talented, high-achieving students at the Technical University of Munich as part of the Scholarship for Germany scheme. Scholarships are also awarded to doctoral students.
“Supporting young people is extremely important to us. We want to enable talented young people to flourish above and beyond their studies and obtain an insight into the diversity of the industry and the HÖRMANN Group at an early stage,” explains Elizabeth Hörmann, Chair of the Hans Hörmann Foundation.
For HÖRMANN as a family-owned company, for our company founder Hans Hörmann and for the Hörmann shareholder family, corporate responsibility goes hand in hand with social responsibility. We strive to create added value for society as a whole.
Benefits for our employees
Benefits for cycling to work
Cycling is good for the climate and good for your health. And benefits increase employee satisfaction and make work more fun. HÖRMANN is offering one such benefit in partnership with www.jobrad.org: Employees can select the bicycle of their choice from a range of selected dealers.
The employer then leases the bicycle and provides it to the employee to use whenever and however they want: to travel to work, in their everyday lives, and on holiday. This saves them money compared with buying a bicycle the usual way. Vedran Beslač, Senior Legal Counsel at HÖRMANN Industries GmbH, is full of enthusiasm:
»I intend to cycle more in future, so the offer from the HR department came at just the right time for me. I have already gone on my first rides. Cycling to work is a bit too much for me right now, since I live a few dozen kilometres away – but who knows, it might well become an option as I get fitter.«
Vedran Beslač
Senior Legal Counsel in der HÖRMANN Industries GmbH
The hot topics at the Group
Daniela Heger, industrial designer at H.RMANN Vehicle Engineering GmbH: “I never fail to be impressed by the diversity within the HÖRMANN Group. The ‘mittendrin’ employee magazine regularly showcases the different companies and provides insights into their flagship projects, working environment and culture. I especially enjoy the introduction, which neatly summarises the current situation and the hot topics at the Group and gives you the good feeling of belonging.”
Thinking about tomorrow today
“As an employer, we are also responsible for ensuring our employees’ pension provision,” says Johann Schmid-Davis, CFO of the HÖRMANN Group. The HÖRMANN Group offers its employees a modern, pioneering system: the HÖRMANN pension. All employees can voluntarily contribute portions of their salary to a separate pension scheme, saving them taxes and social security contributions while also allowing them to benefit from an extremely generous employer subsidy. Johann Schmid-Davis: “By providing a strong company pension scheme, we are doing our bit to ensure that our employees can look to the future without worry.”
Occupational health and safety
Working safely in a dangerous environment
“Fortunately, we have never had a workplace accident with serious consequences for anyone’s health – even though our employees do spend time in dangerous environments. For example, some of them work on pylons or at great heights, while others work on the railway track bed. Protecting our employees is our top priority!” These are the words of Johannes Antoni, Managing Director of HÖRMANN Kommunikation & Netze GmbH. The certified work safety management system, which is also used at the company’s nine branches, controls all processes in order to ensure the highest possible degree of occupational safety. The company has a dedicated safety expert to assist the management in fulfilling its responsibilities in this area. Johannes Antoni adds: “Every year, we organise an occupational safety week and health days. Regular training, continuous awareness of potential dangers and the systematic analysis of incidents, including the implementation of protective measures, are the key to preventing accidents. Every branch, every task and every construction site has its own specific requirements and hazardous situations and requires the appropriate occupational safety measures.”
The highest standards of health management
Over the past two years, the key topics for Bernd Jermis have been the COVID-19 pandemic, protecting more than 600 employees and maintaining the factory’s production capability. He is responsible for occupational safety at HÖRMANN Automotive Gustavsburg GmbH – and thus also for health protection. “We had some cases of infection, but no major outbreaks,” he notes with relief. Working in close cooperation with management, he and his colleagues at the plant adopted a “safety first” approach right from the start.
A test facility was quickly established
At the onset of the pandemic, the occupational safety team at the Gustavsburg plant provided employees with high-quality masks that they could also use outside the workplace. A test facility was quickly established and mobile teams were even able to perform tests in the workplace. At the factory gate, a strict checkpoint was set up for all visitors and truck drivers with mandatory testing and, later, mandatory application of the German “3G” rules. A vaccination centre was established at the plant at a very early stage and the necessary vaccines were provided to employees via various special campaigns. Family members were also offered vaccinations. This helped to prevent numerous infections and identify cases as quickly as possible. As Bernd Jermis says: “We achieved our goal. The production capability of the plant was never in danger – thanks to everyone’s efforts.”