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"Our position on slavery and human trafficking

We recognise the importance of upholding human rights in our business operations, both in how we treat our people and in how we encourage and expect them to treat each other. This is at the heart of our culture and values. We protect the rights of our employees through our employment policies and practices, which prohibit discrimination and encourage diversity. We protect the rights of our other stakeholders through our resolve on high standards of ethical behaviour. This is embedded in our culture through our policies, principles, codes of conduct and our corporate values. We also actively work with suppliers during the pre-selection and on-boarding process, which includes due diligence of the supplier's reputation, respect for the law, compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, and the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking in the supply chain."

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"However, we take a risk-based approach to addressing matters of modern slavery and human trafficking within our supply chain, whereby we conduct due diligence on all new suppliers during the on-boarding process and at regular intervals with existing suppliers. This forms part of our wider due diligence assessment which includes a review of our suppliers’ other policies and standards.

As part of our approach to due diligence around modern slavery, we also review the prospective organisation’s modern slavery statement. Where one exists, we check that the statement and underlying policies are as rigorous as the Act requires. For suppliers who do not publish a statement, we make use of a questionnaire to ensure that their approach to identifying and mitigating the risks of modern slavery again meets the same standards as those required by the Act. This approach ensures a consistent and rigorous approach to modern slavery across our supply chains."