Modern slavery and human trafficking are global crimes that abuse a person’s rights and freedom. We take a zero-tolerance stance and are committed to continually improving our policies, standards and processes to ensure that these abuses do not take place in our business or our supply chain.
This statement is made on behalf of Hanson Wade Ltd (a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 06752216) in compliance with section 54 (1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and provides an overview of the steps taken to assist in the prevention of modern slavery and human trafficking within our supply chains or any part of our business.
Hanson Wade is a business intelligence company delivering world-leading events and data products within the Life Science, HR, and Construction industries.
We establish relationships of trust and integrity with our suppliers during the procurement process and thereafter.
However, we recognise that there is a higher risk of modern slavery within the following categories of supplier. These are typically businesses that can pay lower wages and may rely on labour from outside the country.
Hanson Wade operates the following policies and process that help us to ensure that modern slavery does not take place in our business or supply chain:
We will strive to continually improve our policies, standards and processes that mitigate against the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking.
Over the next twelve months, we aim to finalise our Supplier Code of Conduct and Procurement policy and underpin this by the provision of training to employees responsible for high levels of procurement or procurement of higher-risk supply chain activity.
This statement was approved by Hanson Wade Limited’s Board of Directors on 21 March 2023.
Phil Clark
Chief Executive Officer
