Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

Demolition & Geotechnical Ltd acknowledges the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 that will give law enforcement agencies the tools to fight modern slavery, ensuring that perpetrators can receive suitably severe punishments for these crimes and enhance the support and protection of victims.

This policy statement defines the company’s commitment to ensuring that human trafficking and slavery does not exist in its own business and how it will make efforts to eradicate the same from within its supply chain.

The company believes that it has a social responsibility for promoting ethical and lawful employment practices and is satisfied that there is no evidence of any act of modern day slavery or human trafficking within its own organisation and is committed to providing a work environment that is free from human trafficking, forced labour and unlawful child labour.

Demolition & Geotechnical approval processes for all subcontractors and suppliers within our supply chain includes a review of the controls they have in place to identify and monitor slavery and human trafficking to ensure that we do our utmost to go above and beyond the legal requirements to deter modern slavery.

Requirements for our supply chain

  • Will not use forced or compulsory labour, i.e. any work or service that a worker performs involuntarily. or under threat of penalty.
  • Will ensure that the overall terms of employment are voluntary.
  • Will comply with the minimum age requirements prescribed by legislative requirements.
  • Will compensate its workers with earnings and benefits that meet or exceed the legally required
    minimum and will comply with overtime pay requirements
  • Will abide by applicable legislative requirements concerning the maximum hours of daily labour.
  • Will not engage in any practice of slavery, servitude, forced labour, compulsory labour and/or human trafficking outside the UK which would constitute an offence if that conduct took place within the UK. Will ensure that any sub-contractors or suppliers from whom they source goods and/or services for those supplied to us adhere to these requirements
  • Will confirm their adherence to relevant legislative requirements i.e. human trafficking, slavery and child labour in each of the relevant countries in which they operate or source goods.

Subcontractors and suppliers who are found to have or be engaging in human trafficking, slavery and are in breach of legislative requirements (including this policy) or refuse to co-operate with any audit to verify compliance will be liable to have any agreement, arrangement or other type of contract with the company terminated immediately, without compensation.

T. Perks
Managing Director
Dated : 16/9/2023