New British Standard on Modern Slavery

New British Standard on Modern Slavery

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BS 25700:2022 Organizational responses to modern slavery – Guidance
BS 25700:2022 Organizational responses to modern slavery – Guidance
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BS 25700: Organizational responses to modern slavery - Guidance

BSI has published a pioneering national standard, giving organizations guidance on how to manage modern slavery risks in their operations, supply chains and wider operating environment.

BS 25700 provides organizations with guidance for addressing the risk of modern slavery, including prevention, identification, response, remediation, mitigation, and reporting.

The benefits to businesses include:

  • A holistic approach to addressing modern slavery that puts people at the heart of an organization
  • Effective management of the risk of modern slavery in a way that supports human rights due diligence
  • Demonstration of organizational commitment to ESG which helps build confidence in your organization’s governance and ethics
  • Positive business reputation
  • Increased sales and customer loyalty, as consumers seek businesses with higher ethical standards
  • Greater ability to attract talent and staff retention
  • Improved investor confidence
  • More responsive and stable supply chains

To support this important topic, where we all need to play a role to enable positive change, BSI is pleased to make our BS 25700 standard free to download.

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Executive Briefing

This Briefing explains the context within which BS 25700 was written and provides a clear explanation of how it should be used.

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Your opinion counts

BSI is keen to gather feedback on this pioneering standard to ensure it meets organizations’ requirements and to help inform our proposal to take this British standard into ISO. If you have any comments on the standard or would like to act as an early adopter of the standard, and to help create case studies on how the standard is being used, we’d love to hear from you.

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Watch the video about this modern slavery standard

Organizational responses to modern slavery is our new guidance document for organizations on managing modern slavery risks in their operations, supply chains and wider operating environment. This webinar provides an overview of the standard laced with personal experience and expertise to make it more meaningful to the audience.

Podcast: Eradicating modern slavery

In this episode of the podcast, host Matthew Chiles is joined by a number of guests to explore the issue of ethical and sustainable supply-chains, modern slavery and the standard BS 25700 – organizational responses to modern slavery.

He speaks to Fred Waelter of BSI about the complexity and challenges of creating ethical and sustainable supply-chains and discusses how organisations should engage their suppliers and contractors, sub-contractors to eradicate modern slavery. 

Professor Alex Trautrims of Nottingham University - Co-Chair of the committee that developed BS 25700 also joined for a quick-fire guide to the standard.

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