Introduction

This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is in response to Section 54(i). Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and refers to the actions and activities for the financial year ending 31st May 2024

Wireless LAN MAN Ltd (“the company’, ‘we’ ‘us’, or ‘our’) is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its own operations, its supply chain, and its products. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to comply with our values.

Organisational Structure

Wireless LAN MAN LTD has businesses operating in the United Kingdom.

We operate in the local government sector. The nature of our supply chain is as follows:

We work with a few key direct suppliers, who provide us with goods such as metal work for our equipment housings, and electronics for our circuitry, as well as hosting services for our IT systems.

For more information about our company, please visit our website https://wlmlabs.com/about-us/

Policies

We operate internal policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner.

These include:

Recruitment and Selection Policy

We conduct checks on all our perspective employees to verify that they are eligible to work in the UK. Certain rolls require a disclosure and barring service (DBS) check where employees may be working with vulnerable people.

Supplier Code of Conduct

We operate this policy to ensure our suppliers operate in full compliance with the laws rules and regulations of the countries in which they operate and seek similar commitment across their own supply chain.

Whistle Blowing Policy

We operate this policy so that employees can raise concerns about how staff are being treated or practises within our business or our supply chain without fear of reprisal.

Staff Code of Conduct

We are committed to the fair treatment of all staff. Our staff code of conduct reflects our core values and expected behaviours. The code of conduct makes it clear that we have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery.

Procurement Policy

We want to make sure that potential suppliers are committed to ensuring that slavery and human trafficking Is not taking place within their own supply chain. I’ll be coming policy and supporting procedures set out controls and cheques undertaken to help verify this.

Safeguarding Policy

This policy highlights the potential risks of modern slavery and human trafficking including how to identify signs of exploitation and how to report concerns we make sure our suppliers are aware of our policies and adhere to the same standards.

Due Diligence

As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains, we have adopted the following due diligence procedures.

  • Internal supply audits.
  • External supply audits.

Our due diligence procedures aim to:

  • Identify and action potential risks in our business and supply chains.
  • Monitor potential risks in our business and supply chains.
  • Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and supply chains.
  • Provide protection for whistleblowers.

Risk and Compliance

The company has evaluated the nature and extent of his exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in its UK supply chains through:

  • Evaluating the slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier
  • Reviewing on a regular basis all aspects of the supply chain based on supply chain mapping

We do not consider that we operate in a high-risk environment because:

The business operates in this risk level environment because the majority of our supply chain is based in the UK and the eurozone in low-risk industries such as Internet software and hosting services and professional skilled engineering.

We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains. Where there is evidence of failure to comply with our policies and procedures by any of our suppliers, we require that the supplier remedy the non-compliance

Effectiveness

The company uses key performance indicators [KPI’s) to measure its effectiveness and ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its business and supply chains. These KPI’s are as follows:
We will contact suppliers to inquire about their modern slavery practises every 24 months.
We will train all staff about modern slavery issues and increase awareness within the company.
We will carry out regular audit of suppliers.

Training staff

The company requires its staff to complete training and ongoing refresher courses on slavery and human trafficking. The company’s training covers:

  • How to identify the signs of slavery and human trafficking.
  • What initial steps should be taken in slavery or human trafficking is suspected.
  • How to escalate potential slavery or human trafficking issues to the relevant parties within the company.
  • What external help is available.
  • What steps the company should take if suppliers in its supply chain do not implement anti-slavery policies in high-risk scenarios including their removal from the company’s supply chain.

This statement was approved by the board of directors.