Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy
This policy applies to all persons working for Utility ROV Services Ltd (URS) or on the behalf of URS in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, agents, contractors and suppliers.
We strictly oppose and prohibit the use of modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations and supply chain in full compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015.
We have and will continue to be committed to implementing systems and controls aimed at ensuring that modern slavery is not taking place anywhere within our organisation or in any of our supply chains. We also expect that our suppliers will in turn hold their suppliers to the same high standards.
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking is a term used to encompass slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour, bonded and child labour and human trafficking. Human trafficking is where a person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person with a view to that person being exploited. Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights.
Commitments
We shall be a company that expects everyone working with us or on behalf of us to support and uphold the following measures to safeguard against modern slavery:
Have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery within their organisation or supply chains.
We are committed to having full transparency in all our operations and endeavour to operate through a supply chain where all parties are fully aligned with the same zero-tolerance principles and values.
The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of the organisation or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for URS or on their behalf. Workers must not engage in, facilitate or fail to report any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy.
We are committed to engaging with their stakeholders and suppliers to address the risk of modern slavery within their operations and supply chain.
We take a risk-based approach to their contracting processes and keep them under review.
We assess whether the circumstances warrant the inclusion of specific prohibitions against the use of modern slavery and trafficked labour in our contracts with third parties.
Using our risk-based approach we will also assess the merits of writing to suppliers requiring them to comply with their Code of Conduct, which sets out the minimum standards required to combat modern slavery and trafficking.
Consistent with a risk-based approach, we may require:
Employment and recruitment agencies and other third parties supplying workers to their organisation to confirm their compliance with our Code of Conduct.
Suppliers engaging workers through a third party to obtain that third parties’ agreement to adhere to the Code.
As part of our ongoing risk assessment and due diligence processes, they will consider whether circumstances warrant the carrying out audits of suppliers to ensure their compliance with our Code of Conduct.
If we find that other individuals or organisations working on their behalf have breached this policy, we will ensure that appropriate action is taken. This may range from considering the possibility of breaches being remediated and whether that might represent the best outcome for those individuals impacted by the breach to terminating such relationships.
