Human Rights

Significance

The Company recognizes the importance of rights, liberty and equality that every human being deserves equally, which is the fundamental rights to be a human being without discriminations caused from the difference such as genders, races, religions or skin colors. The operation that considers human rights is therefore a part of the sustainability to society. The Company has supported and adhered to both national and international human rights principles including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).

Management Approach

To respect human rights and implement it throughout the organization and be communicated covering joint venture and supply chains, the Company has announced Human Rights Policy which covers the Company’s operation and stakeholders through the supply chain such as suppliers, business partner, etc. The approaches are as follows:

Respect human rights in accordance with national and international human rights principles and standards
Develop operational controller to ensure that all employees and stakeholders are entitled to a fair treatment such as recruiting employees from their qualification and experience without limiting other unrelated qualifications, providing a fair performance evaluation system, providing fair welfares and benefits for all employees, etc.
Comply with local laws, regulation and traditions in regards to child labor, compulsory labor and migrant labor
Engage with local community including indigenous people to understand the social, culture, environment and economics in order to prevent any negative impacts that may be contributed from our activities
Strive to regularly conduct human right due diligence including grievance mechanism to identify, prevent and mitigation for adverse human rights impacts
Develop effective communication channel for all employees, communities and stakeholders to acknowledge on human rights and to raise their concerns
Develop operational mechanism to ensure that our business or activities are not involved with any human rights violation such as providing clear standard and communicating to employees, performing internal quality assurance review, studying social baseline at the beginning stage, etc.

Key Activities and Projects

1. Prevention of Hiring Child and Forced Labors

2. Banpu Power’s Human Rights Operations

BPP places great importance of respecting human rights. The human rights policy was announced, while risks related to human rights have been integrated into the materiality assessment. BPP respects human rights according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), theInternational Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and the labor laws of all countries where BPP has operated. BPP has carried out human rights operations as follows:

Announcing the Human Rights Policy since 2018, with a regular review. The policy was lastly updated in 2023 to cover all aspects of human rights related risks, as well as promoting human rights operations throughout the supply chain.
Setting up a target for human rights risk assessment in 2025.
- Proportion of businesses assessing human rights equals to 100%.
- Proportion of businesses having high human rights risks with a must risk management plan is 100%.
- None of significant complaints associated with human rights.
- All human rights related grievances must be corrected through a dispute resolution mechanism.
Integrating human rights issues according to the international principles, including Human Rights Policy, Non-discrimination and Anti-harassment Policy, Employee Recruitment and Selection Policy, Compensation Management Policy, Employee Relations Policy, Employee Training and Development Policy.
Conducting Human Rights Due Diligence in accordance with the Guidelines for Human Rights Due Diligence of Banpu Group. 80% of business entities, in which BPP has direct control, including all 3 combined heat and power plants, Bangkok office and Beijing office conducted human rights due diligence. The 2023 human rights due diligence was carried out in collaboration with Banpu Group. The assessment found that none of BPP’s business units has high human rights risks. The human rights risk assessment is planned for implementing with the businesses in the United States of America by 2025.
Communicating and providing knowledge about human rights to BPP personnel on the topic of “Guidelines for conducting Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD)” in August 2023 so as to make employees and executives understand the relationships between businesses, corporate supply chain, key stakeholders involved with human rights, including presenting guidelines for evaluating the results in order to improve business operations related to human rights.

In 2023, BPP also conducted a Human Rights ImpactAssessment under a Human Rights Due Diligence process for the renewable energy business in Vietnam and the thermal power business in Thailand, which is a joint venture. BPP collects information through an interview with rights holders, including employees, contractors, sub-contractors, security guards, local communities and vulnerable groups consisting of women and pregnant women. According to the impact assessment results and the consideration of existing risks control measures, it was found that most of human rights issues were at a low to moderate level. BPP, therefore, has set up measures to alleviate and reduce impacts as follows:

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Human Rights Policy

Banpu Group’s Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy

Banpu Group’s Human Rights Due Diligence Manual