Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

Introduction

This Modern Slavery and Human trafficking Statement is a response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and relates to actions and activities for the financial year ending 31st March 2024.

Sky Chemicals (UK) Limited is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its own operations, its supply chain, and its products. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to comply with our values.

Organisational Structure

Sky Chemicals (UK) Limited has business operations in the United Kingdom.

We operate in the manufacturing, supply, and distribution of disinfectants to the healthcare and hygiene sectors, along with providing a range of cleaning products to various industries.

The nature of our supply chain is as follows:

  • We work with a number of key direct suppliers who provide our raw materials, packaging materials, and transport / distribution services.

Policies

We operate a number of internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner.

These include the following:

  • Recruitment Policy

  • Staff Code of Conduct Policy

  • Safeguarding Policy

  • Supplier Code of Conduct Policy

  • Sustainability Policy

We make sure our suppliers are aware of our policies and adhere to the same standards.

Due Diligence

As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains we have adopted the following due diligence procedures:

  • External supplier screening to ensure conformance to these principles

Our due diligence procedures aim to:

  • Identify, monitor, and rectify any potential risks in our business and supply chains

  • Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chains

  • Provide protection for whistle-blowers reporting relevant issues

Risk and Compliance

The company has evaluated the nature and extent of its exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in its UK supply chain through:

  • Evaluating the slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier

  • Screening existing suppliers for conformance

  • Maintaining a Failure Modes Effects Analysis Procedure to record, monitor, and rectify any issues

We do not consider that we operate in a high-risk environment because all of our suppliers are UK based and in low risk industries.

We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains. Where there is evidence of failure to comply with our policies and procedures by any of our suppliers, we will seek to terminate our relationship with that supplier immediately.

Effectiveness

The company uses annual supplier audits of randomly selected suppliers to measure its effectiveness and ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its business and supply chains.

Next Steps

In the next financial year, we intend to take the following steps to tackle slavery and human trafficking:

  • Continuing checks on suppliers to ensure compliance

  • Developing the recruitment policy to ensure all candidates are eligible to work in the UK, have no criminal convictions relating to slavery or human trafficking, are applying of their own free will, and are not subject to any unethical practices associated with slavery and human trafficking.

This statement was approved by the board of directors.