Approach

Harbour's activities have the potential to affect human rights and worker welfare directly through our operations, and indirectly through our supply chain and relationships with joint venture partners and third parties.

Our Code of Conduct, values and related policies including our Human Rights Statement, Supply Chain Policy, Sustainability Policy and People Policy reflect our commitment to upholding human rights, protecting worker welfare standards and preventing modern slavery from taking place in either our business or our supply chain.

We have controls and systems in place to help us uphold human rights, protecting workers' welfare standards and preventing modern slavery from taking place including:

  • Due diligence and engagement prior to onboarding, including screening third parties for any human rights abuse and an adverse media reports.
  • Monitoring and periodically refreshing due diligence on third parties throughout the lifecycle of the relationship with them.
  • Staff training, including risk assessment workshops with relevant personnel and our contractors to reinforce awareness and understanding of the issues and the risks.
  • Risk-based verification and assurance programmes, which notify legal and compliance teams of any potential issues with contractors throughout the contracting terms. These teams then work to ensure issues are actioned effectively and closed out.
Looking ahead

We recognise our work in this area will continue to evolve. Following the Wintershall Dea transaction, we are reviewing the processes and practices for managing human rights risks in our legacy entities. Learnings from this review will inform the development of our human rights roadmap in 2025. We also plan to:

  • Engage with relevant suppliers to ensure that they have effective speak up mechanisms for raising concerns when working for us.
  • Train and raise awareness of our relevant employees and contractors, including embedding our third-party risk management tool.
  • Evaluate compliance with modern slavery and worker welfare practices during site visits to suppliers’ premises, where appropriate.
  • Enhance our processes to identify, assess and manage human rights risks in our supply chain by developing a standard for business partner due diligence.