Modern Slavery
Practical solutions to manage your risk
Working with businesses to end modern slavery
Modern slavery is less about the actual ownership of people (although this does occur) and more about exploiting and controlling people so they cannot leave a situation without penalty, disadvantage or retaliation. Modern slavery takes many forms such as forced labour, human trafficking, debt bondage, domestic servitude and deceptive recruiting.
SD Strategies supports businesses to make clear, informed decisions for identifying and managing modern slavery risks, meet legislative requirements and benefit from being a responsible, purpose-driven business.
For more information on managing modern slavery risk in your business operations and supply chain visit our companion website www.endslavery.com
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Our Approach
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Using our ‘Bridge the Gap’ analysis and action planning tool, we identify and address gaps in systems to manage modern slavery risks.
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Our supplier risk prioritisation process uses company spend data and modern slavery risk profiling to identify high-risk categories and suppliers.
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We deliver engaging, industry-relevant modern slavery training to boards, staff and suppliers either face-to-face or via our custom e-Learning platform.
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We conduct detailed desktop and site audits based on human rights protocols and deliver comprehensive risk-based reports.
Innovative tools
Our range of proven tools and offerings will help you identify and manage modern slavery risks across your operations and supply chain.
Three key tools are outlined here - for more information on our full range of tools go to www.endslavery.com/tools
Bridge the Gap
Our Bridge the Gap online tool is simple to use and can be completed by your organisation as a self-assessment questionnaire.
The tool provides a visual ‘heat map’ of how effectively your business is managing modern slavery risks. You can select from 130 practical actions tailored to meet the specific needs of your business and create a practical action plan to better manage modern slavery risks.
Alternatively, we can facilitate a highly interactive and engaging workshop with your team (online or face-to-face) to identify gaps and help build your action plan collaboratively.
Category Risk Profiles
Identifying modern slavery risk in supply chains is a core component of a company’s risk management strategy and is required by Australia’s modern slavery legislation.
Using our proprietary Category Risk Taxonomy we have assessed over $30 billion of procurement spend for risk across diverse industry sectors.
We rank individual spend categories for potential modern slavery risk according to recognised ‘red flag’ indicators such as geography, industry sector, commodity or workforce profile.
Risk dashboards
Visualising potential modern slavery risk data enables businesses to engage key stakeholders and focus resources on high-risk goods, services and suppliers.
We create interactive modern slavery risk dashboards with metrics on procurement spend, suppliers and spend categories represented as high, medium and low risk.
Results can also be used to create infographics that can be used to engage Boards or can be used in Modern Slavery Statements.
Modern Slavery Statements
We have written or contributed to 100+ Modern Slavery Statements for reporting entities based in Australia and overseas.
Our proven process takes the stress out of preparing your statement and we will work with your team to develop a statement that meets the needs of your business.
Your statement will comply with all statutory reporting requirements and enable you to demonstrate your commitment to being a responsible business.
