Businesses are expected to comply and disclose their human rights performance, fulfilling their obligations with growingly complex demands and across the entire value chain. DNV is a partner with unique competence that guides businesses in this complex and evolving environment globally.
Companies are increasingly faced with complex human rights risks. The need to identify, address and manage these risks is crucial in order to uphold social license to operate, maintain corporate reputation and achieve sustainable business growth.
As management and disclosure requirements continue to evolve around the world, companies face significant challenges managing human rights performance across entities, operations, geographic borders, and in varied cultural context. With a switch to more stringent legislative compliance, global companies are pushed to move quickly, while concerns arise over how to follow these complex rules while managing global supply chains, many of which are still opaque.
Getting an in-depth overview of global supply chain activity and risks, translating them into strategies, policies and actions, requires a particular competence within human rights: application of solid, structured approaches to manage risks throughout the supply chain and digital competence that can reduce complexity and increase efficiency.
As an independent assurance and risk management provider, DNV operates in more than 100 countries. Through its broad experience and deep expertise DNV advances safety and sustainable performance, sets industry standards, and inspires and develops solutions.
Whether certifying a company’s management system or products, providing training, or assessing supply chains, and digital assets, we enable customers and stakeholders to make critical decisions with confidence. We are committed to support our customers to transition and realize their long-term strategic goals sustainably, collectively contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
With a pragmatic approach to managing human rights, DNV puts emphasis on supporting business needs without compromising stakeholder demands. Combining our technical and operational expertise, risk methodology and in-depth industry knowledge, we provide practical support and guidance supporting you in managing human rights risks.
DNV contributes to development of standards and processes for managing social criteria reporting. Similarly, we engage in work addressing regulatory and voluntary measures, each with their own unique reporting requirements defined by international organizations, governments, industry initiatives, NGOs, international standards or best practices.