Health and Sustainability Action Group

The Health and Sustainability Action Group is a business meeting point for leadership, knowledge and dialogue to value health and wellness as a fundamental axis of sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Leading Companies

Participating Companies

Objectives

Ambition

Leading the conversation on the health-sustainability link in companies in Spain.

To generate a space for knowledge on trends, tools, commitments and good business practices in health and sustainability.

Action

Practical toolkit for the diagnosis and management of mental health in companies.

Reference publication + IV Observatory IBEX 35

Alliances

Collaboration with public administrations and reference organizations at national and international level.

Public event: IV Business Forum on Health and Sustainable Development.

IV Edition 2022-2023

Mental Health

The Health and Sustainability Action Group will work during its IV Edition (2022-23) on mental health in companies, with the aim of being able to prevent, protect, support, measure and improve the impact of organizations on the mental health of their workers.

Specifically, the Group will work with participating companies on the importance of integrating the culture of employee wellbeing and the impact on people's mental health into business strategy. By highlighting best practices and jointly creating actions and tools to help address this major challenge.

Milestones and results
Shares
Strategic alliances

During the first year of the Group (2019-2020), we analyzed the business case for health and sustainability and identified a roadmap for the integration of SDG 3 (Health and Wellness) into the organizations' strategy.

The second edition (2020-2021) addressed the link between climate change and health and the role of companies in the face of this reality, taking into account the implications of the COVID-19 crisis.

And, in the last edition (2021-2022), we worked on the Health Footprint of companies, with the aim of being able to measure their contribution and move towards a greater impact on the health and well-being of the people around them, from two perspectives: Scope 1, addressing the impact of the company on the health of its employees, Scope 2, related to the health of customers and consumers and Scope 3, in relation to the business impact on health along the supply chain and community in general.

Preparation of the IBEX 35 Observatory, to monitor the contribution to health and well-being of IBEX 35 companies(Edition I/EditionII, Edition III).

Celebration of the III Business Forum: Health and Sustainable Development (SDG 3) in collaboration with reference organizations such as the World Health Organization, the OECD or Lancet Countdown. Access the video summary here

Publication of research reports on the business case of health and sustainability and the climate change-health binomial from a business perspective and the Health Footprint of organizations.

Forética collaborates with key institutions such as the Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Social Law and Agenda 2030, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (INSST), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Spanish Society of Health Managers (SEDISA), among others, on aspects related to corporate health and sustainability.

At the international level, Forética collaborates with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) through its "Employee Health and Wellbeing" initiative and is a member of the Planetary Health Alliance.

Forética is also part of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion(ENWHP ).