Sustainability

人権に関する取り組み


人権は一人ひとりの尊厳を守るものです。自らの事業活動や取引関係において人権を尊重することは、当社の社会的責任の基盤です。私たちは人を尊重し、敬意を持って接します。 

人権を尊重することは、コンプライアンス上の問題にとどまりません。
Vorsitzender des Vorstands: Legal, Taxes, Insurance & Intellectual Property; Corporate Development; Corporate Communications & Government Relations; Senior Executive Human Resources; Investor Relations; Compliance; BASF 4.0; Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence; Digitalization in Research & Development; Innovation Management

Dr.マーティン・ブルーダーミュラー

BASF SE 取締役会会長

BASFは人権を尊重する責務と、人権を推進する機会を心から受け入れています。国連グローバル・コンパクトの創設メンバーである当社は、国連の「ビジネスと人権に関する指導原則」(UNGP)や、それに相当する各国の取り組みに触発され、支持しています。

国際的に事業展開する企業として、私たちは世界中の多くの社会の一員であり、世界中の何千もの信頼できるビジネスパートナーと共に活動しています。以下の概要は、当社の人権に対する取り組みの詳細をまとめたものです。

We engage in constructive dialog on human rights with other stakeholders via the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI), a group of globally operating companies from various sectors. The initiative aims to ensure implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We are also active in initiatives such as Together for Sustainability (TfS) and Responsible Care®, which promote sustainability in the supply chain.

In acting on our responsibility for respecting human rights, we rely on a systematic, integrated, risk-based approach and established monitoring and management systems. As we regard human rights due diligence as a continuous task, we review our due diligence mechanisms regularly and upgrade them where required. Our Chief Human Rights Officer oversees BASF's human rights risk management. He directly reports to the Board of Directors.

Our compliance unit is responsible for steering human rights topics and coordinates the work of the cross-functional Human Rights Expert Working Group. This group is a platform for close collaboration between experts from different specialist units – e.g., procurement, legal, human resources, environmental protection, health and safety, sustainability, site security, supply chain, communications, and government relations – and operating divisions. It provides support in improving internal processes, offering training and advising in challenging situations. This cross-unit collaboration helps us to approach our human rights due diligence holistically and in a spirit of continuous improvement.

We integrate external human rights expertise via our independent Human Rights Advisory Council, whose members include independent international human rights experts. Trust-based dialog on human rights topics helps us to better understand different perspectives and to deal more openly with critical situations. At the same time, the renowned experts highlight potential for improvement and help us to build on our strengths in how we handle human rights.

BASFがどのようにして人権に対する責任を果たしているかについては、以下のカテゴリーをクリックしてください。

We have systematically integrated Human Rights assessments into our corporate processes for governance and decision-making, e.g. for investments in sites, plants, equipment, and financial assets. We seek to identify and prevent potential adverse Human Rights impacts of our operations.
We embed our commitment to respect Human Rights in our daily operations and for all business functions. We encourage and foster open dialogue with all our stakeholders to develop a mutual understanding of relevant topics, to allow for a meaningful consultation, and to raise awareness. We connect to create value in societies. In a collaborative way, we strive to reduce negative and to optimize positive effects.
We report our global goals, approach, monitoring systems and measures for integrating human rights issues into our business activities regularly and transparently in our annual report and on our website.
We offer worldwide operational-level grievance and/or complaint mechanisms for own employees, partners, and the public affected by our operations. We take on critical questions and listen to all grievances. We ensure that all concerns that are brought forward to us are addressed. We strive for appropriate remediation by the responsible party.

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BASFは、外部専門家からの助言を受けています。例えば、当社の独立組織であるHuman Rights Advisory Council(HRAC)では、学界や市民社会からの国際的なソートリーダーが、意見を述べています。 HRACは、当社のチーフ・コンプライアンス・オフィサーが率いています。  

デンマーク人権研究所、国連によるビジネスと人権に関するワーキンググループ、非営利団体BSR(Business for Social Responsibility)に所属していたマーガレット・ユンク (Margaret Jungk)氏が、社外の人権専門家として参加しました。

If your human rights are affected by BASF activities,

if you have human rights complaints related to BASF,

if you want to draw BASF's attention to human rights violations in the value chain,

Stakeholder Advisory Councilでは、BASFの新たな人権への取り組みと人権に関する主なリスクについて集中的に議論しました。この課題は、特に長いバリューチェーンや異なる文化的背景や法律などの複雑さのため、間違いなく継続的なプロセスとなります。しかし、BASFの新しい『Group’s Position on Human Rights』をはじめとした、進展もあります。

マーガレット・ユンク

人権専門家