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Background <p>Ensuring the health and wellbeing of employees and pursuing sustainability goals are among the key future tasks for enterprises. Although these two areas are closely interlinked, they are often still addressed separately in practice. Systematically integrating health promotion and sustainability in the workplace can help enterprises to meet current sustainability standards and strengthen the role of workplace health promotion (WHP).</p> Objective <p>This article aims to present scientifically grounded, practical approaches to linking WHP and ecological sustainability. It focuses on key arguments for such a&#xa0;link, quality criteria for healthy and sustainable workplaces, and practical implementation pathways.</p> Materials and methods <p>A&#xa0;qualitative exploratory research design combining a&#xa0;selective and systematically expanded literature review, document analysis of corporate reports, semi-structured interviews with company representatives, and an online focus group to validate the findings in workplace practice was applied.</p> Results <p>The findings reveal a&#xa0;wide range of opportunities and synergies (co-benefits) arising from an integrative perspective on health and sustainability in the workplace. Based on the dimensions of structure, process and outcome quality as well as the ESG pillars (environment, social, governance), 42&#xa0;quality criteria were identified. Additionally, a&#xa0;stepwise model was developed to support the gradual integration of both topics into company structures.</p> Conclusion <p>Integrating WHP and sustainability can contribute to developing healthy, sustainable and future-oriented workplaces. Key prerequisites include a&#xa0;shared commitment within the organisation and the systematic development of knowledge, structures and cooperation in the sense of capacity building.</p>

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Gesundheit und Nachhaltigkeit am Arbeitsplatz

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    2026年3月9日

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  • Barbara Szabo,
  • Nina Wallner,
  • Selina Osztovics,
  • Gert Lang,
  • Michael Blum

摘要

Background

Ensuring the health and wellbeing of employees and pursuing sustainability goals are among the key future tasks for enterprises. Although these two areas are closely interlinked, they are often still addressed separately in practice. Systematically integrating health promotion and sustainability in the workplace can help enterprises to meet current sustainability standards and strengthen the role of workplace health promotion (WHP).

Objective

This article aims to present scientifically grounded, practical approaches to linking WHP and ecological sustainability. It focuses on key arguments for such a link, quality criteria for healthy and sustainable workplaces, and practical implementation pathways.

Materials and methods

A qualitative exploratory research design combining a selective and systematically expanded literature review, document analysis of corporate reports, semi-structured interviews with company representatives, and an online focus group to validate the findings in workplace practice was applied.

Results

The findings reveal a wide range of opportunities and synergies (co-benefits) arising from an integrative perspective on health and sustainability in the workplace. Based on the dimensions of structure, process and outcome quality as well as the ESG pillars (environment, social, governance), 42 quality criteria were identified. Additionally, a stepwise model was developed to support the gradual integration of both topics into company structures.

Conclusion

Integrating WHP and sustainability can contribute to developing healthy, sustainable and future-oriented workplaces. Key prerequisites include a shared commitment within the organisation and the systematic development of knowledge, structures and cooperation in the sense of capacity building.