Modern Anti Slavery Statement
Alaska Building Maintenance Group
Modern Anti Slavery Statement
Introduction
Purpose
Alaska Building Maintenance Group is resolved to operating all of its business activities to the highest standards of business ethics and integrity. We are committed to providing a respectful environment for all our employees, free from discrimination, abuse and exploitation. There is no globally agreed definition of modern slavery rather the term is used to cover a range of exploitative practices including human trafficking, slavery, forced labour, child labour and debt bondage. We are committed to ensuring there are no modern slavery concerns in our business or supply chain. Alaska Building Maintenance Group provides businesses with reliable, high-quality outsourced cleaning. Our client- focus has meant that we enjoy high levels of client retention and referrals and our clients appreciate the way we design individually tailored cleaning packages for them and provide a one-stop corporate cleaning solution for all their cleaning needs.
Alaska Building Maintenance Group’s approach to monitoring modern slavery is as follows:
- Recognise the leverage we have to influence change within our community and consider how our actions and business practices could influence and contribute where supplier pricing is inappropriately low.
- Build meaningful relationships with external stakeholders by:
- Providing awareness of modern slavery through training.
- Raising awareness of our expectations via client agreements.
- Identifying and responding to inappropriate practices.
- Adopt a risk management approach with both internal and external stakeholders to identify areas where modern slavery may be present and monitor the risks where required.
Introduction
Our company Business Conduct and Ethics policy includes elements that address several areas that are central to how we promote ethical and responsible behaviour through our values:
- High ethical standards and leadership by example
- Workplace relations that value communication, consultation, co-operation
- The safety of all employees and visitors to our sites
- Respecting our customers and delivering our promises
Our Commitment
Alaska Building Maintenance Group is committed to upholding human rights, fair working conditions and environmental protection.
In accordance with the expectations of our customers, the community, and the requirements of the Law, we endeavour to always operate responsibly within the community and we expect the same from our suppliers.
Maintaining a reputation for the highest legal, moral and ethical standards in our dealings with our customers and other key stakeholders is critical for our ongoing success. Alaska Building Maintenance Group’s Business Conduct and Ethics Policy and this Statement has been developed to complement our core values of integrity, trust and acting responsibly.
We are committed to working with our suppliers to help improve their labour and environmental practices.​
Alaska Building Maintenance Group
Modern Anti Slavery Statement
Our Principles
Expectations
We expect our suppliers to support the ethical standards set out in Business Conduct and Ethics Policy and this Statement with regard to workplace safety, environment, and fair pay and employment conditions.
These documents set out the standards that we expect all of our suppliers to comply with when producing and supplying products for Alaska Building Maintenance Group, no matter where they operate in the world. We recognise that full compliance with these criteria may take time for some suppliers, and we are committed to working with our suppliers to implement improvement plans and help them achieve compliance.
Bribery and Corruption
We shall not engage in acts of bribery and corruption and shall not falsify documents and records
Labour Rights
Employment is freely chosen
There is no forced, bonded or involuntary prison labour
Workers are not required to lodge deposits or their identity papers with their employer and are free to leave their employer after reasonable notice
Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are respected
Workers, without distinction, have the right to join or form trade unions of their own choosing and to bargain collectively.
The employer adopts an open attitude towards the activities of trade unions and their organisational activities.
Workers representatives are not discriminated against and have access to carry out their representative functions in the workplace.
Where the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is restricted under Law, the employer facilitates, and does not hinder, the development of parallel means for independent and free association and bargaining.
Working Conditions
- A safe and hygienic working environment shall be provided, bearing in mind the prevailing knowledge of the industry and of any specific hazards. Adequate steps shall be taken to prevent accidents and injury to health in the working environment
- Workers shall receive regular and recorded health and safety training, and such training shall be repeated for new or reassigned workers
- Access to clean toilet facilities and to clean and drinkable water and, if appropriate, sanitary facilities for food storage shall be provided
- We will ensure that personal protective equipment is available and workers are trained in its use. Safeguards on machinery will meet or exceed local laws
Child Labour
Alaska Building Maintenance Group supports ILO Convention 138 with regard to the appropriate age of workers and will not work with suppliers who use child labour.
- Is mentally, physically, or morally harmful to children;
- Can negatively affect their mental, physical, or social development, and
- Interferes with their schooling:
- by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school;
- by obliging them to leave school prematurely; or
- by requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
In short: child labour is work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and is harmful to their physical and mental development.
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