Sustainable Leadership Practices and Employee Health and Safety Measurements: An Integrated Model Applied to an Italian Service Company.

This chapter aims to provide an integrated perspective on the relationship between employees’ health and safety and sustainable leadership (SL) and on the measurement of company performance in terms of employees’ health and safety, according to the international standard—the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. This work consists of two parts. The first part reviews the extant literature on the intertwining of health and safety issues with other issues—and, in particular, with leadership, which has gained increasing importance likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The work focuses on sustainable leadership and the relationship between sustainable leadership and other approaches to leadership, such as transformational leadership ethical leadership and responsible leadership. With reference to sustainable leadership, the chapter utilises the SL foundation practices of Avery and Bergsteiner’s model (2011) to propose an original model that connects SL practices with policies and practices regarding workers’ health and safety, according to a measurement system—the international GRI Standards. The second part focuses on a business case—a large Italian company that provides facility management services in both the public and private sectors. Through documentary analysis (especially the company’s integrated reports), the case completely validates the proposed model. responsibility.