Modern Day Slavery
natm magazine recognises its legal and moral obligations to comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and is committed to operating its business responsibly.
The Modern Slavery Act requires companies to explain on an annual basis how they address the issue of modern slavery and human trafficking in their global supply chains.
This statement sets out the steps natm magazine has taken to ensure that modern slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in our supply chain or any part of the business and to eliminate as far as is possible the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking taking place within our organisation.
About natm magazine
natm magazine is the UK’s and Ireland’s leading specialist civil engineering journal.
We circulate over 120,000 magazines a year and reach on average close on one million digital users per year.
Our Supply Chain
natm magazine is committed to ensuring that all our products are responsibly sourced. We procure services from a wide variety of providers including our biggest two - the manufacturing of our publishing and the Royal Mail. Our supply chains include suppliers IT, office equipment, and professional services from our lawyers and accountants.
Our Policies on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Our opposition to modern slavery and human trafficking is reflected in our guiding principles and reflects our commitment to acting with empathy in our business relationships, ensuring that we are applying the necessary controls within our organisation to endeavour to minimise the risk of modern slavery and human rights
violations across our business operations and supply chains.
Due Dilligence Processes / Areas of Risk and Management
We have undertaken an analysis of the company’s internal policies to ensure that they uphold our desire to respect and protect human rights with regard to modern day slavery and will identify and engage with any suppliers which fall into a higher risk category. Categories and services which may be of a higher risk of modern slavery will be identified based on a calculated risk assessment. This will include governance and risk mapping which will take into account the location, spend and product or services of the supplier. As a result of this assessment our action points include but are not limited to managing our supplier terms and condition to ensure they include information on modern slavery and human trafficking.
Supplier Adherance to Our Values and Ethics
natm magazine does not accept modern slavery and human trafficking and we have in place processes when working with suppliers to:
1. Conduct a risk assessment of a new supplier and its supply chains before agreeing to any engagement with that supplier, including considering its location, our spend and the product group and any risks raised of modern slavery or human trafficking;
2. Monitor supply chains and where appropriate audit suppliers once they have been engaged; and
Require all manufacturing suppliers to agree to our terms of conduct within their supply agreements, which include a requirement to comply with the Modern Slavery Act.
Statement
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our modern slavery and human trafficking statement.