The Impact of Occupational Health and Safety on Company Performance

The chapter focuses on presenting data regarding the influence of occupational health and safety interventions on organizational performance. The main objective is to present examples of monitoring data, investments, actions, and hazard prevention programs mentioned by companies in their sustainability reports. Ergonomics interventions can be an opportunity for prevention and reducing occupational risks, as the ISO 45001:2018 standard mentions. Occupational Health and Safety connects with Ergonomics and Human Factors through programs for “reducing the risk at source”, controlling occupational diseases, and creating healthy workplaces and working environments, in order to increase social and economic organizational performance. The chapter is structured in five sections. After the introduction, the main coordinates of health and safety monitoring data are presented. In the third section, there is an overview of hazard prevention programs. The fourth section presents ergonomics and human factor interventions mentioned by companies with a high Dow Jones ranking score in Occupational Health and Safety (S&P OHS score).The last part highlights the impact of occupational health and safety programs on social and economic performance.

Keywords: Ergonomics, Hazard, Healthy workplace, Human factors, ISO 45001, Monitoring, Organizational performance, OHS score, Occupational risk, Occupational disease, Prevention, Safety programs, Standardization, Social performance, Sustainability report, Work, Work environment, Wellbeing.