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6 The meethod develooped and th he respectivve backgrou und database is a firstt, promising attempt to addreess the social pillar of sustainabilit s ty in the sco ope of the well w establisshed metho od of Life Cycle AAssessmennt and Life e Cycle Enngineering. Social eff fects that would hav ve been neglecteed by an LLCA can be e included aand show remarkable results. Prooblem shifting from the environmental realm to the e social fieldd can be av voided. The exaample showws, that the results of thhe LCWE method m can be used simmilarly to the e results of an LLCA: Informmation is pr resented onn a unit pro ocess level and also project or process specific informatioon can be inserted. IInformation about soc cial issues is summa able and scalablee as the LCCA user is fa amiliar with from the environment e tal LCA. In the compre ehensive backgroound databaase, informa ation for alll unit processes regard ding the quaalified work king time and lethhal and noon-lethal ac ccidents is available. Additionally y, informatiion concern ning the following indicatorss can be ins serted in thee GaBi softw ware in the LCWE tab by the user r: AActual wommen employment CChild labour Discussioon and out tlook Holistic and forwaard-looking decisions must be based b on a broad baasis of all relevant information. The soocial dimens sion of humman actions clearly mus st be considdered. Discrimination in job ac ccess Forced laboour Hazardous child labour No collectivve bargainin ng No right to oorganise Unequal remuneration All inforrmation has to be in relation to working time in seconds. Howeveer, it has to be stated that due too the above mentioned restrictionss for indicators, not all relevvant social information can be acccounted for r by this me ethod, so faar. Additional social effects hhave to be considered in future deevelopment t of the meth hodology. As all LCWE data currently pr resent in thee GaBi data abase is de erived from US statistic cs, it can be regaarded valid for all coun ntries holdinng similar economic e and a socio-ecconomic co onditions than thee US. Using thhe LCWE ddata for decision makinng, it has to be conside ered that ass the data is s derived from staatistics, it dooes not rep present exacct site spec cific situations and shoould only be e used to comparre for exammple genera al product options. For the com mparison off social aspects of different suppliers, company-s specific dataa has to be used. To conclude with, , the social database can be used as a hotspot daatabase in order to examinee the main contributor rs to social profiles along the pro ocess chainns of produ ucts. For these mmain contributors, site specific s soccial data can n be gathere ed in a secoond step in order to get a more precisee picture of the t social immplications of a produc ct. Page 12 / 15
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