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• Occupational safety and health (OSH) technicians work in Spain as advisers in OSH matters. • This paper suggests an integration of OSH professional advice into business strategy. • Spanish firms seem to be driven by the market towards hiring prevention services. • A survey collected data on the role of OSH professionals in Spanish firms. • The survey results suggest improvements for OSH professional praxis in Spain. In the last few years, occupational safety and health (OSH) management systems in Spain have been implemented in firms by professional technicians who are gaining importance as advisers to guarantee minimum occupational accidents and to monitor occupational safety and health. This paper analyses the current situation of this profession in Spain, in terms of (1) individual criteria, referring, among other factors, to their training, qualifications, duties, and responsibilities; (2) collective criteria, referring to the situation of their professional group (prevention services entities, employers, market); and (3) environmental criteria, referring to their external perception as individual professionals and members of a professional group and their relationships with other agents. Along with the description of the Spanish situation we analyse the results of a survey carried out on Spanish OSH professionals (FSSOSHP) in which we collected primary data for each criteria category (individual, collective, environmental) in order to suggest improvements for their professional praxis. Finally, we discuss the results of our survey and emphasize the need to make improvements in individual, collective and environmental areas for OSH professionals and OSH management systems to progress in terms of further integration and increased efficacy of OSH activities in Spanish firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes relationships between knowledge management (KM) strategies and company Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In particular, and based on knowledge-based and stakeholder theoretical perspectives, this paper focuses on specific connections between KM exploration and exploitation strategies and typical dimensions of a company's CSR performance -economic, social, and environmental. These connections suggest a different KM orientation of firms trying to take advantage of both long and short-term strategies based on either environmental, social, or economic goals for CSR. These relationships are reflected in different hypotheses that were tested by means of a structural equations model in a sample of Spanish firms from the renewable energy sector. The study findings show that KM exploration initiatives are closely related to social and environmental commitment to CSR, whereas KM exploitation initiatives are more related to economic CSR. Moreover, the social dimension of CSR is strongly associated to product innovation capabilities, while the economic dimension of CSR contributes in a greater extent to the development of process innovation capabilities. From these results, the study's discussion centers on how KM strategies and a firm's CSR orientation should be coherent in order to collect specific knowledge from stakeholders for the improvement of innovation capabilities. The study concludes by providing new insights about the relationship between KM and CSR dimensions as determinants of a firm's innovation capability development. • This study analyzes relationships between knowledge management (KM) strategies and corporate social responsibility (CSR). • KM exploration is highly related to environmental and social CSR. • Environmental and social CSR are positively related to the development of product innovation capabilities. • KM exploitation is highly related to economic CSR. • Economic CSR is positively related to the development of process innovation capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]