Modern-Slavery-Statement-FY22

Complete Office Supplies Pty Ltd Modern Slavery Statement 2022 7 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 introduced specialised training for all staff involved in the selection of direct and indirect suppliers as well as all employees in leadership positions responsible for casual labour recruitment. We have also conducted targeted training for all sales staff and employees in 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 the COVID-19 pandemic on its practices and risks to modern slavery. COVID-19 has impacted our regular activities, or new activities we were amid implementing, to assess and address risks of modern slavery. One of these measures we had usually performed was visits to overseas factories, however those visits have been temporarily replaced with third party audits carried out by independent people engaged by COS within the relevant overseas jurisdiction. We are committed to reviewing the effectiveness of our actions by 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. We also monitor our performance against several key performance indicators. These include monitoring. • 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