Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility

This study measures the extent to which the gender perspective is taken into account in Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) management and proposes an innovative approach for managing it. This work is an exploratory study of the relations between women´s OHS and Corporate Social Responsibility (C...

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Autores: Larrieta Rubín de Celis, Izaskun, Fernández de Bobadilla Guemez, Sara, Alonso Almeida, María del Mar, Velasco Balmaseda, Eva
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:occupational health & safety
women’s health
gender equality
corporate social responsibility
OHS management
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spelling Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibilityLarrieta Rubín de Celis, IzaskunFernández de Bobadilla Guemez, SaraAlonso Almeida, María del MarVelasco Balmaseda, Evaoccupational health & safetywomen’s healthgender equalitycorporate social responsibilityOHS managementThis study measures the extent to which the gender perspective is taken into account in Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) management and proposes an innovative approach for managing it. This work is an exploratory study of the relations between women´s OHS and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through the examination of the main management practices that literature supports in a survey conducted at 117 companies in Spain with different levels of commitment to gender equality. Overall, the practices in question are found to be deployed to a moderate extent and their impact is limited. The most relevant initiatives are those related to the prevention, punishment and eradication of sexual harassment in the workplace and violence against women. Our findings indicate that compliance with the law and the importance of external recognition in CSR are main drivers in promoting the gender perspective in OHS. A coherent framework is suggested for addressing women’s OHS management based on a voluntary, preventive, systematic approach that goes beyond sexual and reproductive issues, namely the CSR.Ministerio de Igualdad (España), Exp.: 175/09Elsevier202420242016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/64028reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.07.019info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/© 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/640282026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
title Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
spellingShingle Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
Larrieta Rubín de Celis, Izaskun
occupational health & safety
women’s health
gender equality
corporate social responsibility
OHS management
title_short Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
title_full Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
title_fullStr Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
title_full_unstemmed Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
title_sort Women’s occupational health and safety management: An issue for corporate social responsibility
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Larrieta Rubín de Celis, Izaskun
Fernández de Bobadilla Guemez, Sara
Alonso Almeida, María del Mar
Velasco Balmaseda, Eva
author Larrieta Rubín de Celis, Izaskun
author_facet Larrieta Rubín de Celis, Izaskun
Fernández de Bobadilla Guemez, Sara
Alonso Almeida, María del Mar
Velasco Balmaseda, Eva
author_role author
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Alonso Almeida, María del Mar
Velasco Balmaseda, Eva
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv occupational health & safety
women’s health
gender equality
corporate social responsibility
OHS management
topic occupational health & safety
women’s health
gender equality
corporate social responsibility
OHS management
description This study measures the extent to which the gender perspective is taken into account in Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) management and proposes an innovative approach for managing it. This work is an exploratory study of the relations between women´s OHS and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through the examination of the main management practices that literature supports in a survey conducted at 117 companies in Spain with different levels of commitment to gender equality. Overall, the practices in question are found to be deployed to a moderate extent and their impact is limited. The most relevant initiatives are those related to the prevention, punishment and eradication of sexual harassment in the workplace and violence against women. Our findings indicate that compliance with the law and the importance of external recognition in CSR are main drivers in promoting the gender perspective in OHS. A coherent framework is suggested for addressing women’s OHS management based on a voluntary, preventive, systematic approach that goes beyond sexual and reproductive issues, namely the CSR.
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