BS 25700:2022

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 What is BS 25700 - Modern slavery about?

Every organization has a responsibility to understand the modern slavery risk of its activities.

As the National Standards Body (NSB) in the UK, BSI plays a vital role in helping businesses to adopt best practices and align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. BS 25700 Organizational responses to modern slavery – Guidance is a pioneering British-led standard, convened by British experts and that will be developed into a future international document.

It provides organizations with guidance for managing the risk of modern slavery, including prevention, identification, response, remediation, mitigation, and reporting modern slavery in its operations, supply chains, and its wider operating environment.

As part of BSI’s commitment to abolish Modern Slavery, our standard BS 25700 is available to all organizations on an open access basis. Get your free copy or download the document in full here.

Who is BS 25700 - Modern slavery for?

BS 25700 on modern slavery can be adopted by all organizations, regardless of sector, type, size, and nature of activity. As the standard is written as a comprehensive organizational approach, the standard is suitable for every member of staff of any organization wishing to understand better what good looks like and how they can support their organization’s drive to address modern slavery. The standard is of particular application to:

• C-Suite;
• HR and training managers;
• Procurement officers;
• Risk and compliance officers;
• Monitoring and surveillance managers;
• Exploitation officers and anti-human trafficking outreach officers; and
• Lawyers involved in human rights, safeguarding, governance, and ethics.

The sectors most often associated with modern slavery are agriculture, construction, events, domestic work, hotels and accommodation, textiles, warehouses, and distribution but it’s important that people understand it can be found in any sector and any location.

What does BS 25700 - Modern slavery cover?

Defining modern slavery as a set of specific legal concepts that include forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, slavery, slavery-like practices, and human trafficking; this new British Standard gives organizations guidance on managing the risk of modern slavery, including prevention, identification, response, remediation, mitigation, and reporting modern slavery in their operations, supply chains, and wider operating environment.

BS 25700 also encourages organizations to go beyond legal and statutory duties and address the wider risks associated with modern slavery.

To learn more about what BS 25700:2022 covers and its benefits, listen to The Standards Show podcast episode here.

Why should you use BS 25700 - Modern slavery?

 The first ever national standard on modern slavery, BS 25700 can help organizations to:

• Effectively manage the risk of modern slavery.
• Demonstrate human rights due diligence in response to numerous international, regional, and national initiatives driving organizations to act in an ethical and responsible manner, such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
• Comply with growing mandatory human rights due diligence and mandatory reporting requirements.
• Strengthen overall risk management and improve efficiency.
• Enter new markets and trade more easily.
• Underpin organizational ESG commitments.
• Build confidence and trust in the organization’s probity.

Get your free copy or download the document in full now.

To learn more how to implement this standard, download our free Executive Briefing today.