Human Rights Due Diligence
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In 2022, Asia Cement initiated a process of human rights due diligence, making it a cornerstone of their strategy for sustainable management. The scope of investigation includes Asia Cement's own operations (including subsidiaries), suppliers, community residents, and customers.
The human rights due diligence regularly reviews the status of human rights management by following the principles set forth in international human rights and laws and regulations. Due diligence is conducted at least once every three years to discover major human rights issues, review management performance on human rights issues, formulate improvement plans and remedial and preventive measures, and publicly disclose due diligence reports.
Asia Cement conducts due diligence in accordance with the procedures specified in “OECD Due Diligence Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct”.
Human Rights Risk Assessment
Asia Cement devises questionnaire questions for each stakeholder category, and conducts risk identification of various related issues. The company evaluate the high-risk issues for each stakeholder based on the possibility of human rights issues and the severity of the issues.
Mitigation and preventive management measures
Employees | ||
Risk Scenario Description | Management mitigation and preventive measures | Establishment of Mitigation Plan for the Number of Operating Locations |
Right to health: Employees do not receive adequate operational train-ing and safety education, or work overtime in a high-pressure envi-ronment without providing legal health measures, which has a nega-tive impact on employees' physical and mental health. |
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Work and labor conditions: Unfair or non-compliant working environ-ment or labor conditions will deprive employee of basic rights at work (such as working hours, wages, health and safety, equal pay for equal work, etc.). |
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Maternal protection: Employees are entitled to have the access to reasonable facilities and maternity leave during periods of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. At the local level, we always comply with national laws dealing with any work-related and temporal restric-tions for pregnant employees. We have further taken reasonable mea-sures to protect pregnant employees from engaging in dangerous work. |
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Contractors and Supplier | ||
Risk Scenario Description | Management mitigation and preventive measures | Establishment of Mitigation Plan for the Number of Operating Locations |
Personal freedom and safety and human trafficking: Threats, physi-cal attacks, harassment (such as sexual harassment) or any form of illegal treatment (such as human trafficking), once occurring, will lead to adverse physical and mental effects on the workers of suppliers. | We require suppliers and contractors to sign and implement social responsibility policies: Employment must be voluntary, and employ-ees must be assured that they will not be subject to coerced labor, including, but not restricted to, involuntary overtime work and imprisonment. | All Site |
Freedom of speech and expression: Suppliers have not been provided with a secure and efficient way to express their opinions, or all parties' voices are stifled through coercion, such as threatening to do harm to the personal safety, work, or life of those expressing opinions, by means of litigation, intim-idation, and threats. | We require suppliers and contractors to sign and implement social responsibility policies: Unless otherwise prohibited by law, proce-dures must be in place to protect whis-tleblowers and allow them to express con-cerns without fear of reprisal. | |
Freedom of assembly and associa-tion: Supplier personnel are prohibit-ed from signing up to trade unions and there are no available means for them to get involved in collective bargaining. Union representatives, participating employees, and workers engaged in legal strike are treated unfairly and unjustly. | We require suppliers and contractors to sign and implement social responsibility policies: When it comes to freedom of association and labor-management negotiations, employees' rights to choose, form, join or refuse to join trade unions or other types of employee orga-nizations and their rights to participate in related activities must be respected. |
Communities and customers | ||
Risk Scenario Description | Management mitigation and preventive measures | Establishment of Mitigation Plan for the Number of Operating Locations |
Self-determination right: the impact of land expropriation, construction, operations on the autonomy of local residents. |
| All Site |
Basic standard of living: Improper development and construction, excessive resource consumption, and toxic/pollutant leakage from factories affect residents' access to clean natural resources (such as water, air, and land), leading to a detrimental impact on quality of life or livelihoods. |
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Freedom of speech and expression: Communities have not been provided with a secure and effi- cient way to express their opin- ions, or all parties' voices are stifled through coercion, such as threatening to do harm to the per- sonal safety, work, or life of those expressing opinions, by means of litigation, intimidation, and threats. |
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Monitoring the effectiveness of human rights policy
To track due diligence implementation, Asia Cement’s Corporate Sustainability Promotion Committee annually examines and evaluates the effectiveness of mitigation and preventive management measures every year, and reports the results to the Corporate Sustainability Committee.
Channels for communication and lodging grievances
In order to safeguard the rights of employees and partners in the value chain from human rights abuses or negative impacts. Asia Cement has established a Communication and Grievance Channels to ensure that employees and value chain partners have the right to file complaints, report, or lodge grievances regarding potential human rights violations. All complaints are handled anonymously. In addition, Asia Cement remedies any human rights violation or negative impact, and adopts the necessary remedial measures on the fronts of company policy and internal procedures.