Deepening our understanding of potential modern slavery risks

Today, we released our Modern Slavery Statement 2024, outlining steps we’ve taken to deepen our understanding as well as actions to assess and address modern slavery risks.  

Modern slavery is an overarching term for situations involving forced labour, illegal forms of child labour, human trafficking, debt bondage, deceptive recruiting for labour, and exploitation of minimum wage requirements. 

As a large infrastructure business, while risks of modern slavery in our Australian-based operations remain low, our supply chains are globally connected. This means potential risks sit at the lower levels of our supplier chain tiers, which makes them more difficult to assess and map.  

To help us better understand and manage these risks, in 2023, we partnered on a pilot program with Fair Supply which provided us access to an ESG risk management and compliance platform with reporting data across industries and countries to help identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery and associated risks.  

As we expand our work with Fair Supply in 2024, it will help provide us with more rigour in understanding and managing our modern slavery risk in complex supply chains. 

In addition to this crucial partnership, 2023 saw us:  

• use updated modern slavery risk ratings in the Informed 365 platform to better understand modern slavery hotspots for the energy sector, and improve our internal risk monitoring 

• update our Code of Conduct to reflect our commitment to mitigating modern slavery risks, and provide information and training to our teams 

• collaborate with industry peers through the Energy Procurement Supply Association to better understand and map modern slavery risk in the sector, including refining and standardising supplier assessment questionnaires. 

In addition, 750 of our suppliers completed modern slavery assessment questionnaires and we completed 1,617 sanction checks across our supplier base. 

A copy of our Modern Slavery Statement 2024 is available here.

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