NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE

Policies described

Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents

Training described

Your whole organisation Your front line staff Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff Your suppliers Other

Grievance mechanisms

Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups

Other monitoring

NOC have policies in place that regularly monitor working conditions in terms of Health & Safety Risk Assessments and personal development plans

Demonstrated progress

We provided engagement & awareness materials for internal staff, on our two research vessels, to suppliers, our Innovation Centre tenants and our PhD students. Our Procurement team continue to engage with suppliers to ensure they meet our standards and our supplier Code of Conduct. We used the Modern Slavery Assessment Tool to understand gaps for future improvements and to develop KPIs for future years.

Reported risks and mitigations

• Risk: Supply chains need to be monitored to ensure we are not linked to any Modern Slavery crimes and checks are conducted on all new suppliers
• Area: Within your own operations
• Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children
• Location: Argentina Barbados Canada Chile China Costa Rica Cape Verde Spain Iceland Namibia
• Mitigation: • Our supply chain risks are continuously being monitored and improvements are ongoing and included in our Sustainable Procurement Strategy detailed above.
• Risk: Employees rights violations are avoided by completing right to work checks, maintain VISA requirements, meeting the Maritime Labour convention & using reputable employment agencies
• Group: Women Migrants Refugees
• Location: United Kingdom
• Mitigation: All employee contracts are subject to a successful right to work checks which are conducted for permanent and temporary roles. Any VISA requirements are monitored to ensure the required actions are taken before a VISA is due to expire. The Maritime Labour Convention is adhered to on NOC research vessels. Due diligence checks are undertaken on any recruitment agency to ensure they do not practice poor standards such as worker-paid recruitment fees.
• Risk: NOC ships dock all over the world. NOC only work with port agents from the Lloyds list of shipping agents to avoid poorly run and non-compliant operations
• Mitigation: NOC expeditions take staff all over the world with the ships docking at various port locations. NOC will only work with port agents from the Lloyds list of shipping agents. This is because they have been subjected to robust due diligence arrangements. Where possible, senior members of staff will inspect a port agent premises to ensure NOC can be satisfied that standards are being met in terms of staff working conditions.