This tool is designed to help companies establish good practices to assess and address modern slavery risks in their operations and throughout their value chain. It provides companies with a preliminary score of their current performance and a list of steps they can take to improve it, including information that should be disclosed to their stakeholders.
This tool is designed to help companies establish good practices to assess and address modern slavery risks in their operations and throughout their value chain. It provides companies with a preliminary score of their current performance and a list of steps they can take to improve it, including information that should be disclosed to their stakeholders.
Has our organization established responsibility for managing modern slavery risks and implementing policies at:
The Board level;
The operational level; e.g., to a working group or lead officer?
Does our organization have a strategy for managing modern slavery risks that has been approved by the Board?
Do we have policies that set out our commitment to addressing modern slavery that have been approved by the Board and are made public?
Have we communicated our policies to key stakeholders and integrated them into our operations and practices through contractual provisions, procedures and training so they are implemented and can be monitored?
Do we report on any breaches of our policies, including modern slavery risks/incidents and our response:
internally to the executive and Board?
publicly in our sustainability or other reports?
Where have we mapped, assessed and prioritised risks of modern slavery and related exploitation in our operations and value chain?
Our own operations/employees
Our direct suppliers (Tier 1)
Beyond Tier 1 suppliers, including some of our raw materials and other business relationships (e.g., customers).
Have we assessed whether our company’s own employment practices are fair and working conditions are decent?
Are workers paid a living wage?
Are workers paid their wages and other benefits on time?
Are workers required to work excessive overtime?
Do workers pay recruitment fees or other fees to get the job?
Are workers in situations of debt bondage?
Do workers have safe and sanitary working and living conditions?
Do workers have contracts in a language they understand?
Do workers have access to passport/ID documents at all times?
Are workers free to leave their employment or accommodation at all times?
Do we ensure workers’ interests are adequately represented, including by respecting worker rights to join trade unions or workers associations?
Are all workers’ ages checked and child labor prevented?
Does discrimination occur in the workplace?
How do we conduct due diligence on our suppliers or other business relationships to assess their modern slavery risks?
We ask questions about their workforce, worksites, labor practices, policies and processes for preventing forced and child labor (e.g. through a Self-Assessment Questionnaire);
Visiting the supplier’s site or facilities or conducting a social audit;
Engaging with their workers through surveys, interviews, or other technology such as mobile phone apps;
Using other risk assessment tools e.g. traceability and risk mapping tools;
Engaging with a civil society organization(s) to support understanding of risks.
Supplier Transparency: Does our company publish its list of suppliers?
Have we considered how our purchasing practices (including contract pricing, forecasts, and supplier incentives) might increase risks to our suppliers’ workers?
How can our employees or workers in our supply chain or other stakeholders raise complaints/grievances?
We have a complaints process/grievance mechanism that can be used by our own employees
We have a complaints process/grievance mechanism that can be used by external parties such as suppliers, our suppliers’ workforce and communities affected by our business activities
We ensure that our key suppliers have grievance mechanisms and share details of grievances relating to our business
Do we have a remediation framework that sets out:
Our responsibility to remediate harm that we have caused, contributed to or are directly linked through our business activities; and steps to take to investigate and remediate a critical policy breach or a modern slavery incident?
Where incidents of modern slavery or related exploitation were identified, did we remediate or cooperate in remediation to the people harmed by our business activities?
If your company is based in Thailand, read our Guidance on Modern Slavery Risks for Thai Businesses. It explains what makes workers vulnerable to modern slavery, outlines specific industry risks in Thailand and provides a checklist on what businesses should do to identify, address and report on these risks.