Human Capital

Abstract

The Capitals Coalition The Capitals Coalition is an umbrella body for investors, major employers (including Coca Cola, Dow Chemical and Unilever) and nongovernmental organizations, whose aim is to encourage businesses and governments to include all the capitals in their decision making, resulting in a fairer, more sustainable world economy. The coalition's Human Capital-Occupational Safety and Health Working Group is a group of leading safety and health professionals dedicated to raising awareness of the vital role the profession plays in human capital management. Louise Hosking, an independent consultant working predominantly with small and medium sized companies also sits on the working group;she says that the vital role safety and health professionals have played during the pandemic can be leveraged to highlight its importance in weighing human capital with the other capitals. Investor Pressure Just as they helped direct corporate attention to environmental issues over previous decades, institutional investors are now beginning to ask questions of the organizations whose stock they hold about their human capital standards, including supply chain standards, diversity, and safety and health.