Audi Health Protection celebrates its 100th anniversary

Good health is in higher demand than ever as Audi Health Protection is celebrating its 100^th anniversary in 2020. Thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak, there will be no big celebration.

The first full-time paramedic started working at NSU, a predecessor of the Audi brand, in Neckarsulm in 1920, marking the birth of professional health protection at Audi.

In the beginning, the focus was on caring for employees in the event of injuries or acute emergency situations. This aspect is still an essential element today.

Health protection at the four rings now has many facets, ranging from acute and emergency medical attendance, preventative occupational health care, individual prevention, and the inclusion of employees who receive consultation on their job due to health-related limitations, and all the way to workplace design itself, which should be ergonomic, safe, and maintain the employees' health.

The Audi emergency paramedics are not there just for the Audi employees but also for the people who live at the locations. On the basis of corresponding agreements, they can also respond to emergencies outside of the plant gates.

This is the case, for example, if the local rescue control centre determines that the Audi emergency medical service is closer and can therefore get to the site of the accident more quickly than another emergency medical service. In 2019 alone, the Audi paramedics were called to more than 1,300 external emergencies to cover peak demand.