Good corporate citizenship is essential to our long-term business success.

Our Supplier Guiding Principles (SGP) communicate our values and expectations of suppliers and emphasise the importance of responsible workplace practices that respect human rights and comply, at a minimum, with applicable environmental and local labour laws and core international conventions. The Supplier Guiding Principles is aligned with our Human Rights Policy and reflects our commitment to respecting human rights across our business system and global supply chain.

Since the inception of our SGP program we have collaborated with our bottling and supplier partners to complete over 17,500 human and workplace rights assessments. Although our values have stayed the same we have continually evolved our programme to drive continuous improvement. In 2012 we rolled out programme updates in light of years of experience, industry trends and expert guidance on business and human rights. These updates continued to build our system's awareness of human rights and our capacity through assessing management systems and other Good Practices that support a positive and inclusive workplace. In 2014 we enhanced our assessments with regards to the recruitment and employment practices for migrant workers and protecting the land rights of local communities. Read more about our recent commitments in our Issue Guidance.  

The Supplier Guiding Principles are a part of all contractual agreements between The Coca-Cola Company and its direct and authorised suppliers. We expect our suppliers to develop and implement appropriate internal business processes to ensure compliance with the Supplier Guiding Principles. The Company routinely utilises independent third parties to assess suppliers' compliance with the SGP; the assessments include confidential interviews with employees and on-site contract workers. If a supplier fails to uphold any aspect of the SGP requirements, the supplier is expected to implement corrective actions. The Company reserves the right to terminate an agreement with any supplier that cannot demonstrate that they are upholding the SGP requirements.

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We have found that expanded guidance on specific topics is helpful to support our supplier partners uphold the values outlined in the Supplier Guiding Principles. The Issue Guidance document provides additional guidance on challenging issues which, to date, include Land Rights, HIV/AIDs and Pregnancy Testing and Migrant Worker Recruitment and Employment practices.  The intent is to provide background information on the issue and what are the expectations to comply with SGP.

Issue Guidance
The Coca-Cola Company has developed a number of human rights due diligence resources and tools to address risks that experience has shown may be present in the value chain. The self-assessment checklists included here assist with awareness and early issue identification. By conducting such assessments at the outset, with periodic follow-ups, we can identify and mitigate human rights impacts upfront. If an issue is identified, community engagement is expected to be at the heart of any mitigation strategy. These self-assessment tools are only one piece of the Company’s ongoing Human Rights due diligence process.

Human Rights Self-Assessment Checklists

The Coca-Cola Company has developed a number of human rights due diligence resources and tools to address impacts that, experience has shown, may be present in the value chain. The self-assessment checklists included here assist with awareness and early issue identification. By conducting such assessments at the outset, with periodic follow-ups, we can identify and mitigate human rights risks upfront. If an issue is identified, community engagement is expected to be at the heart of any mitigation strategy. These self-assessment tools are only one piece of the Company’s ongoing Human Rights due diligence process. To date, they have been developed to address:

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