MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING STATEMENT

Introduction

This statement sets out Hi Vis Safety's actions to understand and mitigate all potential modern slavery risks related to its business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that slavery or human trafficking doesn’t exist within the business and across its supply chains pursuant to Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Our Business

Hi Vis Safety aims to be the world leading supplier of Hi Vis, PPE and workwear. We are passionate about developing unique and innovative products and our award winning in-house creative team produce innovative licensed and unlicensed products each year. We are committed to conducting business in an ethical, legal and socially responsible manner and we expect our business partners to conduct themselves in the same ethical manner.

Our policy on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

We are committed to ensuring modern slavery or human trafficking doesn’t exist in our supply chain or any part of our business.

We continuously review our workplace policies and procedures to evaluate and ensure their effectiveness to identify and tackle potential modern slavery and human trafficking issues.

These policies and procedures demonstrate our commitment to acting ethically in all our business relationships while implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure, as far as possible, that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chain.

Our Supply Chain

We actively seek to ensure that slavery and human trafficking does not exist within our supply chain. To mitigate this risk, we currently operate a supplier policy and maintain a preferred supplier list. We conduct due diligence on all suppliers before partnering with them. This due diligence includes periodic external audits, site visits and continuously monitoring our Suppliers’ partners such as factories.

Our anti-slavery policy forms part of our contract with all Suppliers and it is a mandatory requirement that they implement a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking.

Our Approach

In order to identify and mitigate risk in our Business and in our Supply Chain, we have put systems in place to:

• train staff on how to identify signs of slavery and human trafficking.
• steps to take if slavery or human trafficking is suspected.
• raise awareness of modern slavery issues.
• monitor, identify and mitigate potential risks in our supply chain.
• periodically review of all aspects of the supply chain.
• evaluate the modern slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier.
• protect whistle blowers.

ANTI-SLAVERY POLICY STATEMENT
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.
The Company has a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery, and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or in any of our supply chains.

We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains, consistent with our disclosure obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and as part of our contracting processes, in the coming year we will include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery
or servitude, whether adults or children, and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.
This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, interns, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners. This policy does not form part of any employee’s contract of employment and we may amend it at any time.

Responsibility for the policy
The Company has overall responsibility for ensuring this policy complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that all those under our control comply with it. The Company has primary and day-to-day responsibility for implementing this policy, monitoring its use and effectiveness, dealing with any queries about it, and auditing internal control systems and procedures to ensure they are effective in countering modern slavery. Management at all levels are responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with this policy and are given adequate and regular training on it and the issue of modern slavery in supply chains. You are invited to comment on this policy and suggest ways in which it might be improved. Comments, suggestions and queries are encouraged and should be addressed to the Managing Director.

Compliance with the policy
You must ensure that you read, understand and comply with this policy. The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our business or supply chains is the responsibility of all those working for us or under our control. You are required to avoid any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy. You must notify your line manager OR a company Director as soon as possible if you believe or suspect that a conflict with this policy has occurred or may occur in the future. You are encouraged to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of modern slavery in any parts of our business or supply chains of any supplier tier at the earliest possible stage.

If you believe or suspect a breach of this policy has occurred or that it may occur, you must notify your line manager or company Director OR report it in accordance with our Whistleblowing Policy as soon as possible. You should note that where appropriate, and with the welfare and safety of local workers as a priority, we will give support and guidance to our suppliers to help them address coercive, abusive and exploitative work practices in their own business and supply chains. If you are unsure about whether a particular act, the treatment of workers more generally, or their working conditions within any tier of our supply chains constitutes any of the various forms of modern slavery, raise it with your line manager or company Director.

We aim to encourage openness and will support anyone who raises genuine concerns in good faith under this policy, even if they turn out to be mistaken. We are committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment as a result of reporting in good faith their suspicion that modern slavery of whatever form is or may be taking place in any part of our own business or in any of our supply chains.
Detrimental treatment includes dismissal, disciplinary action, threats or other unfavourable
treatment connected with raising a concern.

If you believe that you have suffered any such treatment, you should inform your line manager immediately. If the matter is not remedied, and you are an employee, you should raise it formally using our Grievance Procedure, which can be found in the current employee handbook. This Modern (Anti) Slavery Policy and Statement is intended for businesses in all countries, especially the United Kingdom; and was brought to you by Rushax. Communication & awareness of this policy
Training on this policy, and on the risk our business faces from modern slavery in its supply chains, forms part of the induction process for all individuals who work for us, and updates will be provided using established methods of communication between the business and you. Our zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery must be communicated to all suppliers, contractors and business partners at the outset of our business relationship with them and reinforced as appropriate thereafter.

Breaches of this policy
Any employee who breaches this policy will face disciplinary action, which could result in dismissal for misconduct or gross misconduct. We may terminate our relationship with other individuals and organisations working on our behalf if they breach this policy.