About the data
Methodology
In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company publicly discloses who has the lead responsibility for human rights and environmental issues. Start by looking for direct contact details for the relevant department or individual with lead responsibility. This can be an email address, phone number or address.
Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Contact page
- Company Code of Conduct
- In Modern Slavery Statement or California Transparency Act disclosure
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
Good keywords for your searches include:
- Sustainability team/department
- Corporate Social Responsibility team
- Head of Sustainability
- Sustainability Director
- @
Things to watch out for:
- It can often be found at the bottom of documents
For example:
- If the contact details of the relevant department are provided, this could be the email address and/or phone number of sustainability or CSR team
- If the contact details of the relevant person are provided, this could be their email address or phone number. Do make sure this is the lead responsibility for human rights and environmental impacts in the business