Anti-Slavery Policy Statement

Anti-Slavery Policy Statement

This Statement reflects DVE’s commitment to ensure to the best of our ability that there is no modern slavery in any part of our business operations.

Commitment

We are committed to:

• acting ethically and with integrity in all business dealings and relationships.
• ensuring that modern slavery is not taking place in our own business or supply chain.

As part of our contracting processes, we include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery or servitude.

DVE also expects our service providers, suppliers and contractors to share our commitment to act lawfully and ethically and to work to ensure that modern slavery is not taking place within their organisations or supply chains.

• Modern slavery describes situations where coercion, threats or deception are used to exploit victims and undermine their freedom. Coercion, threats and deception can be explicit or implicit.
• Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) defines modern slavery as including eight types of serious exploitation:
  • trafficking in persons
  • slavery 
  • servitude 
  • forced labour 
  • forced marriage 
  • debt bondage 
  • the worst forms of child labour 
  • deceptive recruiting for labour or services.  
• Worst forms of child labour include extreme forms of child labour that involve the serious exploitation of children through enslavement or exposure to dangerous work. It does not encompass all child work. 

In the event of any inconsistency, the definitions in the Modern Slavery Act 2018 take precedence over this Policy Statement and DVE’s Modern Slavery Policy.