The company states that it carries out human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) through independent expert firms like Shift, Impact, and Arche Advisors, who visit a sample of its own operations, suppliers, and other business partners and also identify issues that go unseen during a third-party audit. Also, it states that it assesses risk geographically for both its own operations and extended supply chain and considers a variety of factors, including the views of the local leadership team, its business integrity committees, and internal functional experts, as well as external country-level human rights risk indicators like those provided by the risk organisation Verisk Maplecroft. Further, it discloses its eight identified salient human rights issues.