Social Life Cycle Analysis SLCA

Social sustainability from a lifecycle perspective - can you count social effects? What social indicators are included? The RISE expertise in social life cycle analysis can help you within companies or municipalities with investigations and set requirements within the supply chain.

At RISE, we work on social impact assessment from a life-cycle perspective, that is, we analyze every part of a chain needed to deliver a product or service, and how it can be improved. Health effects are a social effect that is evaluated in a regular life cycle analysis, but in a social life cycle analysis, 54 qualitative & quantitative indicators are included, including areas such as work environment and labor law, child labor, fair wages, working hours, local employment and economic growth, discrimination or social well-being.

Social LCA is a method for assessing the social effects of products and services (UNEP 2009). It is important to select and reduce the number of social indicators in S-LCA studies. Evaluations within a life cycle perspective and its social effects (PSILCA 2015) include 54 qualitative and quantitative indicators, 16 subcategories and 15,000 industrial sectors and raw materials. To select indicators, the Handbook for Product Social Impact Assessment (HPSIA, 2018) recommends the use of material assessment (MAT), which has also been used in corporate CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) work.

RISE has experience in: bioeconomy, textiles, chemistry and food production

RISE offers assessment and calculation of social sustainability in a life cycle perspective.

SLCA according to UNEP SETAC or HPSIA or simpler variants (screening SLCA).
Various variants such as potential social risk or benefits, as well as socio-economic analysis and social effects.