Modern Slavery Policy
Policy Statement
This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, agents, contractors and suppliers.
BDI Resourcing Ltd strictly prohibits the use of modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations and supply chain. We have and will continue to be committed to implementing systems and controls aimed at ensuring that modern slavery is not taking place anywhere within our organisation or in any of our supply chains. We expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Modern slavery is a term used to encompass slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour, bonded and child labour and human trafficking. Human trafficking is where a person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person with a view to that person being exploited. Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights.
Commitments
We are a company that expects everyone working with us or on our behalf to support and uphold the following measures to safeguard against modern slavery:
- We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in our organisation and our supply chains.
- The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our organisation or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for us or on our behalf. Workers must not engage in, facilitate or fail to report any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy.
- We are committed to engaging with our stakeholders and suppliers to address the risk of modern slavery in our operations and supply chain.
- We take a risk based approach to our contracting processes and keep them under review. We assess whether the circumstances warrant the inclusion of specific prohibitions against the use of modern slavery and trafficked labour in our contracts with third parties. Using our risked based approach we will also assess the merits of writing to suppliers requiring them to comply with our Code of Conduct, which sets out the minimum standards required to combat modern slavery and trafficking.
- Consistent with our risk based approach we may require:
- employment and recruitment agencies and other third parties supplying workers to our organisation to confirm their compliance with our Code of Conduct
- Suppliers engaging workers through a third party to obtain that third parties’ agreement to adhere to the Code
- As part of our ongoing risk assessment and due diligence processes we will consider whether circumstances warrant us carrying out audits of suppliers for their compliance with our Code of Conduct.
- If we find that other individuals or organisations working on our behalf have breached this policy we will ensure that we take appropriate action. This may range from considering the possibility of breaches being remediated and whether that might represent the best outcome for those individuals impacted by the breach to terminating such relationships.
The UK Government amended the Climate Change Act 2008 in 2019 by introducing a target of at least 100% reduction in the net UK carbon account (i.e. a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions when compared to 1990 levels) by 2050. As a result, Central Government Departments, their Executive Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies are required to ensure that suppliers to contracts with an annual value of in excess of £5 million (excluding VAT) per year are committed to achieving “Net Zero by 2050” for all procurements after 30th September 2021.
This has led to PPN 06/21 which applies to all new procurements from this date including framework call-offs and Dynamic Purchasing Systems where the anticipated individual value of the call-off or DPS is £5 million or more (excluding VAT) per annum. To demonstrate compliance, we have set out our environmental management measures in our Carbon Reduction Plan which includes:
- Confirming our commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050 for our UK operations.
- Details of our carbon footprint/current emissions for the sources included in Scope 1 and 2 of the GHG Protocol and a defined subset of Scope 3 emissions.
- Providing emissions reporting of the CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalent) for the greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol (predominantly carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide).
- Setting out the environmental management measures we have adopted including specific carbon reduction measures.
- Publication of our Carbon Reduction Plan on our website.
Carbon Reduction Plan
The tables below show our carbon footprint in our baseline years, 02/2022 when we first started measuring our emissions and the current year.
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Baseline Year: |
12 months commencing 01/2021 |
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Baseline Emissions Calculations: |
No Scope emissions reporting took place prior to 01/2021 so baseline emissions have been calculated according to the baseline on this date. |
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Scope 1 CO2e: |
3.70 kg CO2e
Leased Vehicles - 3.70 kg CO2e Currently we have 1 leased vehicle from Honda which began in 2019. We control the use of our leased vehicle and use it only when necessary and have based our CO2e on the average miles per year in 2021 – 13,500 miles.
No further direct emissions to report. |
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Scope 2 CO2e: |
0CO2e
Both our London and Bristol offices are part of a managed office where no data available. We will aim to put pressure on our buildings landlord to give the information, we will update future reports with this data as it becomes available.
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Scope 3 CO2e (included sources): |
2745.9 kg CO2e
Transportation – Business – 0CO2e BDI Resourcing do not use vehicles not operated by us as we do not outsource transportation for our business. No data is available.
Transportation – Commuting – 2542 kg CO2e An anonymous survey was conducted across all employees to provide accurate data on how they commute to work, and the distance travelled each day. BDI Resourcing has 2 offices in London and Bristol, both are in city centres with a wide variety of transport links. The breakdown of how employees commute to work is detailed here:
Upstream - 203.90 kg CO2E BDI Resourcing have used video conferencing to reduce the amount of travelling needed for meetings that can be conducted online. However, there are some meetings which have had to have been conducted in person. A total of 2 client meeting were conducted in person during 2021. Employees had to travel by car to reach both clients and the carbon emissions have been calculated accordingly.
Downstream – 0COSe BDI Resourcing do not sell, or transport products sold including retail and storage and therefore, have no data to report on this.
Operational Waste – 0CO2e The operational waste at BDI Resourcing is a confidential shredding waste of all paper used in the business. This is outsourced to a private company who are responsible for destroying the confidential waste. The company have not been able to provide the CO2e for our waste. We will continue to put pressure on our provider for the result.
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Total Emissions: |
2749.6 kg CO2e
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Current Year: |
12 months commencing 01/2021 |
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Baseline Emissions Calculations: |
No Scope emissions reporting took place prior to 01/2021 so baseline emissions have been calculated according to the baseline on this date. |
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Scope 1 CO2e: |
3.70 kg CO2e
Leased Vehicles - 3.70 kg CO2e Currently we have 1 leased vehicle from Honda which began in 2019. We control the use of our leased vehicle and use it only when necessary and have based our CO2e on the average miles per year in 2021 – 13,500 miles.
No further direct emissions to report. |
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Scope 2 CO2e: |
0CO2e
Both our London and Bristol offices are part of a managed office where no data available. We will aim to put pressure on our buildings landlord to give the information, we will update future reports with this data as it becomes available.
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Scope 3 CO2e (included sources): |
2745.9 kg CO2e
Transportation – Business – 0CO2e BDI Resourcing do not use vehicles not operated by us as we do not outsource transportation for our business. No data is available.
Transportation – Commuting – 2542 kg CO2e An anonymous survey was conducted across all employees to provide accurate data on how they commute to work, and the distance travelled each day. BDI Resourcing has 2 offices in London and Bristol, both are in city centres with a wide variety of transport links. The breakdown of how employees commute to work is detailed here:
Upstream - 203.90 kg CO2E BDI Resourcing have used video conferencing to reduce the amount of travelling needed for meetings that can be conducted online. However, there are some meetings which have had to have been conducted in person. A total of 2 client meeting were conducted in person during 2021. Employees had to travel by car to reach both clients and the carbon emissions have been calculated accordingly.
Downstream – 0COSe BDI Resourcing do not sell, or transport products sold including retail and storage and therefore, have no data to report on this.
Operational Waste – 0CO2e The operational waste at BDI Resourcing is a confidential shredding waste of all paper used in the business. This is outsourced to a private company who are responsible for destroying the confidential waste. The company have not been able to provide the CO2e for our waste. We will continue to put pressure on our provider for the result.
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Total Emissions: |
2749.6 kg CO2e
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Carbon Reduction Commitments/Actions
BDI Resourcing is committed to achieving Net Zero by 2050 and as part of this commitment, has an interim target of reducing emissions by 50% by 2030. This plan is reviewed annually by the Directors to check progress and establish if changes should be made to the actions we have in place to maximise our reduction in carbon emissions.
The basis of our Carbon strategy is one of Measure – Prioritise – Act – Measure – Repeat.
Measure
We report on the sources of environmental impact over which we have operational control, calculate our carbon footprint monthly in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocols Corporate Standard, and report against the Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gasses in terms of:
- Actual targets – absolute reduction targets which compare actual figures in the target year to those in the base year.
- Intensity targets – based on a normalising factor.
We use an online carbon calculator service to manage our data inputs, conduct the required calculations, set and record our intensity metrics, and provide monthly carbon reporting. The data that sits behind this is the UK Government Greenhouse Gas reporting database, updated when appropriate.
This provides us with our emissions by source, and total emissions by month, sets our intensity metrics and tracks performance month-on-month.
Our chosen intensity metric is kg/CO2 per employee.
Our base year for all measurements is 01/2021 This will not change unless there is a significant change to our company structure (e.g. a merger or acquisition) or a change in the company’s ownership, in which case the base year may move to the reporting year following the structural change.
Specific inputs and output used to calculate figures quoted in our Carbon Reduction Plan include:
- Leased vehicles
- Business transportation
- Employee commuter mileage by type – walk / cycle / motorcycle / car / bus / train.
Prioritise
Our monthly carbon calculation has enabled us to identify the largest sources of GHG emissions, and to focus those which have most impact. That does not imply however that we are not implementing actions across the board. We have been able to identify quick and
easy wins which relate to relatively low impact areas whilst also implementing longer term multi-facet strategies for the larger emission areas. Examples includes:
- Dishwasher used once a day rather than washing each item by hand
- Discounted bus tickets offered to encourage the use of public transport
- All recyclable items separated
- Lights turned off every evening
- Windows opened rather than using air-con
Act
Our action plan involves Behaviour Change, Process Change and Technology Change.
Behaviour Change
We have communicated our Net Zero ambitions across our workforce and have tasked staff with identifying where they can affect carbon reductions through behaviour change. Examples include:
- Encouraging the turning-off or powering-down of appliances and lights when not in use.
- Video conferencing for meetings
- Encouraging alternative travel to work e.g. walk, cycle, public transport (discounted prices)
Process Change
We have conducted a thorough review of all our process to identify opportunities to reduce or eliminate physical waste, and making more efficient use of materials (e.g. electronic data storage and moving towards paperless systems).
With this information, we have developed our action plan to implement the Best Available Technology in relation to:
- Reduction in use of paper and consumables through introduction of electronic systems to replace paper-based procedures such as intranet and online induction/training, electronic storage of documents etc.
- Reduced the amount of printing and focus on using emails and messaging systems
Scope 3
Whilst we can influence the Scope 3 emissions arising from our staff travel to work, other upstream and downstream emissions are harder to measure and report.
Measure
Our monthly carbon reporting means that we are in a continual measurement programme, and by implementing the above actions, we are able to see how well each specific measure is working and refine our processes accordingly.
Offsetting
Offsetting the emissions that we can’t mitigate will become part of our strategy, but only at the point that we’ve implemented all of the possible behavioural, process and technology changes that we can influence. There are different options of how we can offset our carbon footprint and have researched the below options:
- Forestry and conservation
- Renewable Energy
- Community Projects
- Waste to energy
Reduction
We project that carbon emissions will decrease over the next five years to 2474.64 CO2e by 2027. This is a reduction of 10%.
Declaration
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans, the GHG Reporting Protocol Corporate Standard and we use the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements and the required subset of Scope 3 emissions have been reported in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard.
We confirm this Carbon Reduction Plan is reviewed and signed off at board level on an annual basis and is available on the home page of our website.
Signature:
Name: Tom Calver
Job Title/Designation: Director
Date: 12/09/22