Case study 1

 

We have been approached by a company in Europe who is already involved in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by investing in Smart Cities; the company is building an additional factory-operation in a community with a population of 45,000, away from major cities. Presently, the company is planning to invest in the new community to become a Smart Community, through the CHBO Certification. This company feels that a Culture of Health in Business (CHB) is essential to the success of a Smart Community. They need the interaction and the recognition of our Pillars in CHBO Certification as follow:

- Consumer Health: They will invest in food retail companies to implement information labels to encourage healthy nutritional food.
- Employee Health: they will invest in encouraging employees to walk to their workplace and reduce the use of their vehicles by burning energy, not gasoline --reducing carbon dioxide emissions; by investing in the local transportation system… to improve on-time performance, with a pilot program to stop 1000 meters of the workplace. Company vehicles will be available for emergencies or for transferring workers to doctors for regular visits.
- Community Health: They will invest in retired people to stay active and independent to promote health protection. They will invest in e-learning educational initiatives to stimulate local kids/teens to stay, grow and innovate within the community, to keep kids busy with future team-activities, this will reduce or eliminate tobacco, alcoholic use; prevent opioid epidemic and adolescent substance uses.
- Environmental Health: they will invest and pilot a program to lower single-use plastic, like straws, cotton swabs…
- Mature Health: They will invest to involve active retired people, --to be able to encourage and measure the success of CSR within the Culture of Health in Business, based on the principle --“Prevention is better than cure”.

Note: The case study will become a showcase (mentioning names & references), upon the company's approval.