Monitoring and enhancing occupational safety and health in supply chains through sustainability assessment frameworks

The need for sustainability is reshaping business operations, especially within supply chains. This paper explores how occupational safety and health (OSH) in supply chains can be evaluated and improved using sustainability assessment frameworks.

It reviews factors impacting OSH in supply chains and the potential of tools and methods used to assess sustainability performance and OSH performance. Recommendations for policymakers, buying companies, sector initiatives, and customers/end users underline the need to harmonise OSH criteria within sustainability assessment frameworks.