Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
Repsol expressly includes the application of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in its contracts with private security service companies and agreements with public law-enforcement agencies. In this way we attempt to ensure that the activities of security suppliers comply with these guidelines on respect for human rights.
The Fifth Corporate Security Forum addressed Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, along with other issues.
Repsol’s Fifth Corporate Security Forum took place in 2010, and looked at various areas in which the company is making progress towards properly implementing the issues addressed by the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR):
- Selecting security suppliers:
We have defined minimum requirements with regard to ethical conduct and human rights in our criteria for selecting security suppliers. We will ensure compliance with this commitment through clauses that enforce the adoption of Repsol’s ethical and social principles. - Specific contract clauses:
We have included clauses in contracts for the provision of security services, expressly referring to the VPSHR and describing human rights responsibilities and commitments with greater precision. - Human rights training:
We require security contractors and suppliers to receive human rights training as an essential requisite to be eligible for contracting. We also request documentary evidence that enables us to verify this training has taken place. In some cases it is Corporate Security that completes this training, through talks and basic courses. - Checks on our security suppliers:
We monitor our contracted security services to identify any potential human rights abuses. Corporate Security uses these audits and carries out permanent supervision to verify compliance with provisions, policies and procedures. - Communication channels:
As well as corporate security mailboxes, in 2010 we set up a new application called CISEC (Communication of Corporate Security Incidents) in order to communicate, manage and register security incidents. The application is intended as a new means for employees to communicate incidents.
All these activities are in keeping with Respect for Human Rights program, a specific action of our 2012 Sustainability Plan, in which we have committed to applying the implementation guidelines of the VPSHR through collaboration between the Corporate Security and Corporate Responsibility units.
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