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Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... the previous year. "A lot of the environmental and social factors will have value, such as carbon emissions, health and safety and governance," Kendall said. "But if you look at a lot of the third party models, they will also have indicators around shareholder ...

Government appoints Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... significant and unprecedented disruption for Australian businesses and global supply chains." This disruption, and the health and safety and greater human rights impacts on employees in the supply chain both in Australia and internationally have raised ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio manager for First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure Fund Investors have identified occupational health and safety, business continuity planning and balance sheet concerns with a focus on liquidity as immediate concerns during the ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Meanwhile, while 86% of companies in the mining, construction and commercial cleaning sector report some numerical health and safety data, only 26% disaggregate this data for their contractor and/or labour hire workforce. "A transformation taking place ...

Identifying potential risks of COVID-19 and modern slavery in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... significant and unprecedented disruption for Australian businesses and global supply chains." This disruption, and the health and safety and greater human rights impacts on employees in the supply chain both in Australia and internationally have raised ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... the ball with compliance. Also, supporting a lot of that social infrastructure is what's important now." Health and safety - particularly mental health - is of immediate concern. "Where we're having conversations with clients around areas of ...

ACCR files shareholder resolution with BHP over industry associations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... with the ability to lead, influence and strengthen standards in relation to various issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental protection, global warming, community engagement, workforce skills and diversity, and measures that support ...

Baptist World Aid Australia rates fashion companies on human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... This year, the report publicly disclosed findings on a series of environmental questions relating to worker health and safety. Baptist World Aid began integrating these questions last and disclosed answers beginning this year. The report found that in ...

GRI marks 20th anniversary of first draft guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... Standards allow us to incorporate the most current thinking and set the bar across themes as diverse as occupational health and safety, human rights and water stewardship. For example, we are now working to establish a first global standard for reporting ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... well as the range of human rights exposures." Both GEO Group and Core Civic have been rated poorly for employee health and safety as well, given the higher risk nature of prison security as well as allegations of understaffing at both companies, she ...