Silex is an owner of the Gassled joint venture, which has assets in operation in Norway, UK, Belgium, France and Germany.
Gassled has an operator (Gassco), Technical Service Providers (TSPs), suppliers and multiple sub-suppliers working on the assets and in the supply chains. All these companies deliver products and services to Gassled, and many workers are involved in Silex’s human rights scope.
Silex’s vision is to be acknowledged as the leading infrastructure owner with a high focus on safety, reliability, cost efficiency and zero carbon emission. Our compliance with our Code of Conduct and Human rights is a key enabler in this endeavour.
Risk management is an integrated part of all our business processes and decisions. Silex evaluates risk to people in asset operations and supply chain activities as part of the monitoring program. Risk to people’s human rights is reported to the Board of Directors as part of the internal risk reporting process.
A structured work process for human rights due diligence was established to address the Transparency Act which entered into force on 1 July 2022 to ensure suppliers’ compliance with social governance.
Human rights due diligence is an ongoing risk-based process including identifying, preventing, mitigating and accounting for adverse human rights impacts occurring when products or services are purchased, directly or indirectly, for Silex. The human rights due diligence process follows OECD guidelines for due diligence for responsible businesses and is used to drive our continuous improvement in the field of human rights.
No negative impact has been identified during the human rights due diligence process, but the following priority areas have been identified as part of the work to reduce the risk related to human rights:
- Quality assure the operator’s and the TSPs’ tendering processes to secure that the supplier has established its own policy and guidelines for Corporate Social Responsibility, and whether it has been involved in incidents related to corruption, child labour or breaches of human rights or the rights of employees to unionise. Information on such matters is obtained from the suppliers themselves, from internet searches and from Achilles. Possible conditions uncovered will be significant in qualifying the supplier for participation in the tendering process.
- Increase the focus on working environment and risk for work related injury at the processing plants. Information on such matters is obtained from the suppliers themselves and monitored through key performance indicators. Each work related incident will be followed up, and mitigation actions identified and implemented.