Work-related stress as a material ESG issue: a single-company case study on psychosocial risk, organizational health and business impact

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🔬研究者:Provides a testable framework for integrating psychosocial risk into ESG materiality and disclosure models.

🏢実務担当者:Offers a practical template for companies to assess and report work-related stress impacts within ESG dashboards.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights the need for guidance on including psychosocial risks in sustainability reporting frameworks.

Work-related stress and psychosocial risks are increasingly relevant to occupational health, organizational sustainability and ESG governance, but their integration into sustainability reporting remains limited. We conducted a single-company case study of “Company X,” a medium-sized Italian manufacturing and technical services organization (782 workers, four sites), using seven documentary and indicator sources. A structured codebook, dual coding, reconciliation and triangulation were applied to link psychosocial determinants, occupational health processes, workforce indicators and ESG disclosure. Psychosocial risk was documented in occupational health and safety materials but only indirectly represented in ESG reporting. Company X showed process-level disclosure (risk assessment, participation and action planning) and partial outcome disclosure (absenteeism, turnover, training, near misses and engagement), but weak integration with presenteeism, cost estimation and board-level ESG governance. The Stress-ESG Business Impact Framework operationalizes psychosocial risk as a material workforce issue by connecting determinants, prevention actions, aggregate outcomes and governance mechanisms. It can support ESG dashboards, materiality assessment and progressive disclosure without individual-level surveillance.

• semanticscholar https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2026.1882602first seen 2026-06-26 05:36:51