Can Sustainability be related to Occupational Health?

Introduction
The last few years have been characterized by the explosion of the sustainability theme in business. Although the initial approach is directed towards the environmental dimension, the topic of sustainability is presented as a wider systemic concept that brings together environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects. Today the idea of "sustainability" has become a competitive advantage, therefore a growing number of companies introduces sustainability policies within its businesses. Starting from the social aspect, the article analyses how and if the occupational health is considered in these policies.

Methods
The following study can be considered as an exploratory case study. Considering the Corporate Knights Ranking of the World's Most Sustainable Companies, the sustainability policies of the top 20 companies were analyzed. The company website (English version), particularly the attached reports, has been used as the main source of information.

Results
Starting from the information collected, all the companies analyzed consider sustainability or corporate responsibility among the main topics of their business strategy priority. Every company detail actions developed over the three sustainability aspects and, especially regards to the socio-cultural side, all of them remarked the company responsibility for the health and safety of their own workers. All the companies paid great attention to the occupational health indexes and, starting from them, they promoted future goals. None of them mentioned a concrete and specific action to be implemented in the future and nobody delivered information about the impacts of sustainability changes on workers’ labor.

Discussion
The growing importance of sustainability in companies policies represents a great opportunity for occupational health to achieve more consideration, with great benefits for the workers' health. Although this consideration, the companies appear in a first stage. In the future they need to show more commitment through concrete goals: the must be aware that workers with their labor contribute directly to sustainability.