Modern-Slavery-Statement-2021

TRAINING We also continued to provide training for members of the modern slavery working group. This training was used as an essential element for guiding the assessment of risk in our operations and supply chains and implementing actions to mitigate these risks. Several members of the modern slavery working group also attended webinar training and engaged with subject matter experts within our customer and supplier network. We have also conducted targeted training for all sales staff, category managers and leadership positions to raise awareness of modern slavery risks and how they arise in our operations and supply chains. COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought further challenges to modern slavery and highlighted social and economic inequalities worldwide. COS has assessed the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on its practices and risks to modern slavery. COVID-19 has impacted the actions we had planned, or were in the midst of implementing, to assess and address risks of modern slavery. One of these measures included visits to overseas factories. During the peak of COVID-19, we sought information as to how our suppliers were protecting their workers – including work from home flexibility. In particular, our focus was on vulnerable workers unable to work from home during the pandemic to understand how our suppliers were managing cleaning & PPE available alongside guaranteed wages, redeployment of workers and safe return of migrant workers. regularly reviewing our modern slavery processes, with senior management meeting annually to consider whether we are appropriately identifying and evaluating our modern slavery risks; and extending the function of the modern slavery working group to include conducting an annual review of our processes, polices and actions, to ensure we are appropriately identifying and evaluating our modern slavery risks. the number of suppliers participating in our responsible sourcing program as a percentage of total procurement spend; the percentage of our procurement complying with sourcing policies; the number of supplier factory audits completed; and the number of incident & corrective action measures taken in response to actual or suspected incidences of modern slavery ASSESSING OUR EFFECTIVENESS 7 We are committed to reviewing the effectiveness of our actions by: We also monitor our performance against a number of key performance indicators. These include monitoring;