Human rights risk and impact assessment
Be pro-active and identify human rights risks
One of the first steps companies need to take as part of their due diligence process is to identify which human rights risks they are facing and to determine what are the most significant or salient ones.
How can we help?
As there may be many risks, Human Rights at Work can help you to set priorities to prevent reputational damage as well as taking an impactful pro-active approach. We use our comprehensive knowledge of sectors, countries and issues, and have a broad network among stakeholders to make an assessment.
Risks in own international operations
Our approach
- In line with the EU CSDDD and the UNGP
- Mapping the risks and rightsholders
- A management gap analysis
- A concrete action plan how to manage these risks and steps to take.
- Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) in high risk countries to understand the impact by interviews and local research
Risks in supply chains
Our approach
- Tailored risk analysis to identify highest risks suppliers
- Research and investigation into specific allegations of human rights violations of specific parts of the value chain
- Further investigating human rights impacts in a particular supply chain.
- Research and data gathering from the ground, for example through interviews, workers voice technology, or roundtables
- Concrete action plan how to manage these risks and impacts.
- Leveraging our extensive network to effect change for people impacted by business activities
Assess impacts in Asia
HR@W helps to assess the real impact in international operations or supply chains, with a focus on Asia. A tailor-made human rights impact assessment is a welcome addition to your audit approach.
For example for Philips: Human Rights@Work looked at the impact on human rights of one of Philips’ own factories.
Companies that have worked with HR@W include:
