Why is it important?
Nowadays, human rights issues have continued to grow in the international community. As a business, B.Grimm Power inevitably interacts with people and faces the possibility of violating their human rights. Examples might include community rights violations, discrimination, and harassment, either directly through our corporate activities and indirectly through our supply chain operations. We must be aware and prepare for these risks, including potential legal and regulatory violations as well as damage to our reputation and credibility.
Management Approach and Strategy
B. Grimm Power has established guidelines for managing human rights issues across the company, its subsidiaries, and stakeholders throughout the value chain. We adhere to the principle outlined in the human rights policy, as well as relevant international standards and guiding principles. Therefore, B.Grimm Power conducts comprehensive Human Rights Due Diligence and Human Rights Risk & Impact Assessments every three years to identify and mitigate any potential adverse impacts on human rights arising from its business operations. The company also commits to reporting the results of these assessments and its ongoing efforts to address human rights issues, as well as providing channels for receiving and addressing human rights complaints from relevant stakeholders.
In addition, to further align with our sustainability strategy, we integrate the assessments of human rights impacts and risks into the materiality assessment process in every operation and activity of the company throughout the value chain. We regularly raise awareness of human rights issues among employees, suppliers, and joint ventures through training and communication on our "Code of Conduct" and "Supplier Code of Conduct and Guidelines for Sustainability".
Human Rights Due Diligence
We conduct human rights due diligence every three years to identify measures to prevent and mitigate human rights risks and impacts. This covers the operations of the company and controlled entities, including new business relationships such as joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, as well as all stakeholders in the value chain, including employees, suppliers, customers, local communities, and vulnerable groups such as women, children, Indigenous people, migrant workers, third-party employees, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and LGBTQI+ groups. These activities are developed in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which include announcing Human Rights Policy Commitment, Risk and Impact Assessment, Integration and Internal management, Monitoring and reporting, and Remediation.
Policy Commitment
The Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessment
The Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessment, in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP), requires a review at least every three years and aims to identify, specify, and assess potential human rights risks arising from the corporate activities and value chains through the following steps:
Additional details in human rights risk assessment: Human Rights Risks and Impacts Assessment
Integration and Internal management
Review the results of Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessment, such as potential risks and guidelines for improving current operations or measures, to develop and integrate the results into a comprehensive management approach and control the potential impacts.
Monitoring and reporting
B. Grimm Power’s human rights working team monitors and reviews the organisation’s human rights measures annually in accordance with international policies and guidelines to prevent potential risks and impacts of violations along with report assessments and performance results on a regular basis.
Remediation
B.Grimm Power provides channels for stakeholders, whether employees or external stakeholders, to report any concerns, including human rights issues, to the Whistleblowing channel via whistle-blowing@bgrimmpower.com. Through the grievance procedure, we will conduct a prompt, impartial and extensive investigation of grievance. The report will be treated as confidential to the extent possible. For more information about the grievance policy, please visit Whistleblowing and Grievance Policy.
B.Grimm Power has prepared remedial actions to restore the rights of those affected by our business activities. The company has defined various types of remedies that can address the harm caused, the outcomes are able to be a range of forms such as apologies, restitution, rehabilitation, financial or non-financial compensation, punitive sanctions, and the prevention of harm.
Head of Internal Audit
B.Grimm Power Public Company Limited
5 White House Building, Floor 5, Huamark, Bangkapi Bangkok 10240
Performance 2023
Human Rights training and monitoring
In 2023, we remain committed to implementing our human rights policy and promoting respect for human rights among employees and business partners as follow.
- 100% of our employees participated in the training and passed the Code of Conduct test.
- We provide training sessions called ‘Business and Human Rights’ and ‘Promoting Diversity and Inclusion (DE&I) in Businesses’, including the importance of human rights. We also engage in a human rights risk assessment, emphasising the significance of promoting diversity and inclusion within the company. This training is intended for employees at manager levels and above in all units and is facilitated by external experts from outside the organisation.
- 100% of new suppliers acknowledged the Supplier Code of Conduct and Guidelines for Sustainability1.
1 Respect for human rights and non-discrimination are part of the Business Code of Conduct and the Suppliers’ Code of Conduct and Guidelines for Sustainability.
In 2023, we have not received any reports or complaints about human rights violations in our business operations; therefore, no remedial action has been taken. B.Grimm Power will continue to proactively assess and monitor human rights risks and impacts regularly, demonstrating its commitment to human rights for all stakeholders and ensuring the suitability of mitigation measures across the value chain.
Result of The Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessment
B.Grimm Power conducted the human rights risk and impact assessment in 2021 and the result is followed;
| Human Rights Issues | Description | Activity at risk | Stakeholders | Mitigation and remediation actions |
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| A: Health and safety of employees at power plants | Accidents occurs to workers during operation at the power plant | Operation | Employees who on construction and maintenance at new and/or existing sites |
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| B: Contractors’ Health and Safety | Contractors have experienced accidents involving high voltage electricity while working on the electric pole. | Construction | Supplier, contractor and sub-contractors’ workers, working on construction and maintenance services at new and/or existing sites |
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| Scope | Human rights assessment and mitigation in 2021 |
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| Own operations |
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| Tier 1 Suppliers |
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| Joint ventures |
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