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BINGO today submitted its 2022 Modern Slavery Statement. This is BINGO’s third Modern Slavery Statement and it reflects our growing maturity as a business.
We are pleased to report that we did not identify any instances of modern slavery in our business or across our supply chain in FY22.
BINGO Chief Executive Officer, Chris Jeffrey, said a key focus for BINGO in FY22 has been the implementation of best-practice sustainable supply chain management, ensuring that all procurement activities – underpinned by the company’s Responsible Sourcing Program - address the risk of modern slavery.
“In FY21 we began aligning our procurement processes and Responsible Sourcing Program to international standard ISO 20400, Sustainable Procurement. We’re pleased to advise that for FY22 BINGO achieved a performance score of 86% in an independent review of our alignment with ISO 20400,” Mr Jeffrey said.
“Over the past 12 months we developed supplier self-assessment questionnaires which all new BINGO suppliers will have to complete from January 2023. Existing major suppliers will also be transitioned to the new supplier management system in early 2023 and be asked to complete the self-assessment questionnaire. In addition, we engaged specialist social due diligence auditor Precision Solutions Group (PSG) to undertake modern slavery compliance audits at two of our high-risk suppliers. No modern slavery abuses were identified and the likelihood modern slavery abuses were occurring was assessed as unlikely.
“BINGO continues to expand our operating footprint and on 1 July 2022 we officially entered Queensland through our acquisition of United Waste Services. BINGO spent $420 million across approximately 1,500 suppliers in FY22, a large proportion of which are small-to-medium size enterprises.
“As our business grows, we remain acutely aware that the risks associated with Modern Slavery do too. We will remain vigilant and continue to encourage positive change within our industry,” he said.
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