IOMSC Working Group: Business Case for Investing in Employee Health

The 2025 IOMSC Thought Leaders Summit in Geneva brought together more than 50 Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and other occupational health leaders to discuss the priorities and opportunities for occupational health, both today and into the future. The IOMSC Business Case Work Group developed this position paper on articulating the “business case” of the value of investing in the health and wellbeing of workers. It aims to reinforce occupational and employee health (OEH) as a a strategic investment into a maintaining the core “human assets”, capable of delivering measurable clinical and financial value to employer organizations. The bottom line is that maintaining good worker health is good for business.