Our commitment to creating a fair, inclusive, diverse and engaging working environment is all about people. We address human rights risks and support fair practices in our policies and set requirements for our suppliers and sales intermediaries. We foster a working environment where people enjoy their work, feel respected and trusted, and are provided with challenging and interesting responsibilities and career opportunities. We believe that diverse teams create the best results, and that everyone should feel they can be themselves.
Supporting human rights in our value chain
Our commitments are based on international standards, including the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Global Compact, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO Core Principles, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Elements of human rights due diligence
At Konecranes, we take human rights seriously across our operations and supply chain. Our global Sustainability team leads an ongoing due diligence process together with experts from different business areas and group functions. We identify and assess potential human rights risks and impacts using both internal specialists and external information.
We identify where human rights risks may be highest by assessing their severity, based on scale, scope, and irremediability, and their likelihood. In our supply chain, we evaluate inherent severity by purchase category and likelihood through the country level Global Risk Map, which uses data from five international indexes, including the Fundamental Human Rights Index and the Global Slavery Index.
We continuously review our risks and impacts, considering business changes and insights from monitoring channels like the Whistleblowing Channel, social responsibility assessments, and supplier audits. Employee surveys and confidential suppliers’ worker interviews are the key channels to get insights on the risks and effectiveness of risk mitigation straight from the affected people. Human rights risk work feeds directly into our enterprise risk management (ERM). With ERM, Konecranes reviews key risks on an annual basis to ensure that our mitigation activities throughout the Group are effective.
Our relevant potential human rights risks across the value chain include:
• Occupational health and safety
• Fair working conditions
• Discrimination and harassment
• Forced labor
• Privacy
We have several programs in place to prevent and mitigate our potential and actual negative human rights impacts. Please learn more about health and safety actions in Ensuring uncompromised safety in our own operations and supply chain. Furthermore, we have dedicated people processes to provide fair working conditions and protect labor rights. In case of situations where our businesses would need to optimize their operations, including reorganization, we are committed to managing such situations responsibly by utilizing all relevant and available preventive means applicable to the specific case, such as the reduction of working time or early retirement. We engage with employee representatives and follow social, legal, and local requirements.
To proactively prevent discrimination, we have a strong Inclusion and Diversity program, which you can learn more about below in the section Representing the multicultural communities where we operate. We also take privacy seriously and place a high priority on personal data protection, as further explained in Systematic Cybersecurity management to ensure business continuity and data protection.
Information on human rights management with suppliers is provided in the section Managing sustainability during the business relationship with suppliers.
We encourage our employees and any external stakeholders to report all human rights concerns relating to Konecranes, without fear of retaliation. Where applicable, we are providing remedy as part of the investigation process. Please read more from our Whistleblowing page.
