Both the number and average age of intensive care patients will continue to rise in the coming decades, posing further challenges to critical care in hospitals. We have set ourselves the goal of reducing the physical and psychological burden on doctors and nursing staff in critical care by automating routine work and therapy processes, as well as providing support in clinical decisions. We achieve this using solutions based on the networking and intelligent interaction of medical technology in critical care.

Target: By 2030 all relevant medical devices in our portfolio are to be equipped with the network interface for the new ISO/IEEE 11073 SDC interoperability standard.

At the same time there are some 15,000 employees at Dräger whose health and wellbeing are close to our hearts. As such, we have defined further targets to be pursued with the appropriate measures in 2021. The main objective is supporting and maintaining the health of our employees and ensuring healthy working conditions and organisational forms.

Every day our products and services protect hundreds of thousands of people at work. Thanks to Smart Safety—the networking of our gas warning and respiratory protective devices and the data analysis derived from it—we will enable our customers to detect unsafe situations earlier and manage them more efficiently. That is precisely the reason why we are already working non-stop on the networked solutions of tomorrow.

Target: The target is to have more than 80 per cent of our gas warning and respiratory protective devices portfolio offer smart, data-based added value by 2025.

The health and safety of all of our employees is a matter that is close to our heart. We believe that every accident at work is preventable. We are continuously expanding our safety culture to achieve our goal of Vision Zero—a world without occupational accidents.

Target: We want to reduce the lost-time incident rate (LTIR3) in the Dräger Group from 5.6 in 2019 to below 4.0 in 2025.

Lost time incident rate: number of lost-time accidents per million working hours.

With our safety technology products and services, we help prevent emissions of pollutants and damaging events. Going forward we also want to position ourselves as a competent partner when it comes to protecting the climate. To enable this we will be expanding our portfolio to include products and services for measuring methane emissions, for example, which are very harmful to the climate. In future we also see further business areas in a future hydrogen economy.

There are also significant levers for working in hospitals in an environmentally friendly manner. We want to support our customers in implementing a green hospital strategy. To ensure this we are developing products and digital solutions that will, for example, minimise emissions of climate-damaging anaesthetic gases. We are also working on building partnerships to enable us to drive this strategic goal forward. Climate protection tops the Group’s list of internal strategic goals in environmental management. Dräger is taking on the task of long-term decarbonisation in line with the United Nations climate protection goals with the following objective:

Target: Reduction of CO₂ emissions by 33 per cent by 2025 as compared with the base year 2015. This target is to be achieved without the purchase of certificates.

We make a valuable contribution to sustainable business through the careful selection of suppliers. When doing so we attach great importance to high quality standards when it comes to Technology for Life. In future the selection of new suppliers and the awarding of new orders will take place under greater scrutiny of the various sustainability criteria. 

Aim: Beginning in 2022 we will review all new suppliers by means of a sustainability assessment before approval.

Our supply chain plays a substantial role in our product manufacturing process. As such, we ensure that our suppliers also take the sustainability criteria into account.

Target: Our objective for 2022 is to increase our coverage rate of direct purchasing materials with the supplier code of conduct from 81 per cent to 83 per cent.