Social Responsibility of Employers as a Basis for Preservation of Health of the Working Population
Journal Title: Проблеми економіки - Year 2016, Vol 2016, Issue 2
Abstract
The article proves the need for participation of enterprises in the preservation of health of employees. There revealed causes of the increasing role of employers’ social responsibility in health protection of employees, in particular: peculiarities of the state property privatization in Ukraine; a new concept of protection of public health; employers’ interest in healthy workforce; the healthcare policy in Ukraine with respect to the lack of resources. There formulated the author’s definition of the essence of employers’ social responsibility for preservation of health of employees: social responsibility of employers for the preservation of health of employees is the willingness and ability of the organization to create a system of legal, socio-economic, organizational and technical, sanitary and hygienic, medical and prophylactic measures and means aimed at preservation of life, health and man’s performance capability during the labor activity. The forms of employers’ participation in health promotion have been determined. One of such forms, in the author’s opinion, can be a health service at the workplace. There has been made a conclusion about the need for the institutionalization of social responsibility of employers, i.e., the creation of conditions under which employers would follow certain social standards established both at the national and international level. Preconditions and future directions of the development of employers’ social responsibility in Ukraine have been determined.
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Ganna Oganezova
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