Modern Slavery Policy
The Company is committed to improving our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking.
We are committed to ensuring there is no slavery or human trafficking within any part of our business or its supply chains. We strive to achieve this through our recruitment policies and procedures and supplier due diligence processes. For our third-party suppliers we aim to focus on high-risk industries in this area and collaborate with others to concentrate our resources and increase our leverage with brands.
Organisation’s structure
We are a providerof Construction servicesin the Telecommunication network and Construction sector. Our home office is in the UK,and we have sites across the UK.
Our business
Our primary business is telecommunications installation, Traffic management and Recycling waste which is managedby adopting a best practice,continual improvement approach in accordance with our ISO accredited procedures and processes.
Our supply chain
Our supply chain both trade subcontractors, suppliers and consultants are primarily UK currently based,any European companies we may engagehave a UK base therefore all are low risk. We expect our supply chain to have appropriate anti-slavery and humantrafficking polices and process in place to ensure compliance with the ModernSlavery Act 2015.
Our policies on slavery and human trafficking
We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our business and in our supply chains. This Policy reflects as far as practicable our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our business and supply chains.
Due diligence processes for slavery and human trafficking
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk:
The Company employs solelywithin the UK. Our recruitment procedures ensure that all applicants are legally entitled to work in the UK. All successful applicants must produceon their firstday, one of the following: their passport or their driving license (original documents only, no photocopies). In addition, in order to comply with the Asylum andImmigration Act 1996 requirements, and in line with the Home Office Comprehensive Guidance for Employers on Preventing Illegal Working, evidence of the right to reside and work in the UK, including work permits and visas, is sought from all successful applicants and checked by HR and kept of the employee’s file. In line with our GDPR procedures, all HR documents are kept for a 6-year period once the employee has left the Company.
The Company ensuresall direct and indirect colleagues are paid at least the minimum wage. We carry out reasonable and practical due diligence in the sourcing of goodsand services. The supplier vettingprocess requests information from potential suppliers to assess their suitability as a supplier and provide evidence of their compliance of labour standards, the ModernSlavery Act and the Asylumand Immigration Act, as well as coveringother areas of company information, policies and procedures. This enables the procurement team to identifyand assess any potential risks.
We havein place systemsto:
- Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains.
- Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains.
- Monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains.
- Protect whistle blowers.
Supplier adherence to our values
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. To ensure all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our valueswe have in place a supply chaincompliance programme.
If we discover,or are made aware, that we had been associated with human rightsviolations, including any acts of modern-day slavery and human trafficking in the supply chain, we will take steps to rectify the situation, taking account of the interests of those whose rights are being violated. No such instances have been broughtto our attention.
As a business we have adopted Constructionline to support our prequalification process for the assessment, onboarding, and management of our key supply chain.Constructionline is industry recognised as one of the market leading prequalification standards and allows our supply chain to demonstrate the steps taken to ensurethat slavery and human trafficking is not taking placein their business.
These processes and procedures help and assist in identifying areas risk so that we can review them in more detail.This is an ongoingexercise.
Training
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modernslavery and humantrafficking in our supply chainsand our business, we provide training to our colleagues.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.