This statement is made on behalf of Brown O’Connor Communications pursuant to the section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Action 2015 and comprises our slavery and human trafficking statement up until the end of 2023.
OUR BUSINESS
Brown O'Connor Group Ltd (trading as Brown O’Connor Communications) is a full-service consultancy with a focus on a number of specialisms. We work with all types of clients including Businesses, Membership Bodies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Charities and Single Interest Groups.
Our work reaches across sectors such as Health, Energy, Financial Services and FinTech, Legal, Extractive Industries, Victims and Survivors, Retail, Tourism/Hospitality, Construction/Property and the Public Sector.
OUR SUPPLY CHAINS
Our supply chains include: outplacement of IT services, plus outplacement of certain other routine tasks that are relevant to a communications agency such as NI, RoI and GB photography and graphic design.
OUR POLICIES ON SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. Our Anti-slavery Policy reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our business and in our supply chains.
DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES FOR SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
As part of our initiative to identify risk and mitigate against such risks, we nominate senior representations of the business Chris Brown and Arlene O’Connor to oversee this process.
We have in place systems across our business; our trading partners; and our supply chains to:
· Identify inappropriate employment practices.
· Identify and assess other potential risk areas.
· Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring.
· Monitor potential risk areas.
· Protect whistleblowers.
SUPPLIER ADHERENCE TO OUR VALUES AND ETHICS
We have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. To ensure all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values we operate in line with principles of responsible sourcing, including paying employees much more than at the prevailing minimum wage applicable within the UK and Ireland.