Study of the Social Responsibility of Ukrainian Employers for the Health of Employees on the Example of Enterprises of the Machine-Building Industry in the Kharkiv Region

Abstract

The work aims to develop a methodical approach to assessing the employer’s level of social responsibility for employee health. Methods of statistical analysis, expert assessments, and content analysis were used. Developed a methodological approach to determining the level of social responsibility of the employer for maintaining the health of workers, which was tested in a sample of 18 enterprises of the machine-building industry of Kharkiv and Kharkiv region; it is determined by calculating an integrated indicator that combines quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the working environment in three planes (sections), which characterize the factors influencing human health: social conditions and lifestyle, the level of ecology of the working space, and the level of medical care at the enterprise. The results of the employer’s efforts to preserve the health of the employee are transformed into the health of the employee, which is analyzed through the indicator “Health Index”.