Social Responsibility

Breville Group Limited (“BRG”) is committed to conducting business in a socially responsible manner. This includes recognition that we have a responsibility towards ensuring that slavery and trafficking do not occur in our supply chain. We seek to operate in compliance with all applicable national laws wherever we do business, and to respect and support international principles aimed at preventing and eradicating trafficking and slavery, as described in the 2000 United Nations “Palermo Protocol” and the 1926 Slavery Convention. This policy is in addition to BRG’s Code of Conduct, which sets out standards of conduct that personnel of BRG, its subsidiaries, and divisions are expected to meet.

In 2011, our company joined the Fair Labor Association (“FLA”). The FLA is non-profit organization committed to protecting workers’ rights and improving working conditions worldwide. It is a collaborative effort of colleges and universities, socially responsible companies and civil society organizations. The FLA holds affiliates accountable to its Workplace Code of Conduct—a global set of principles based on standards of the International Labor Organization outlining fair working conditions in factories around the world.

The FLA accredits monitors to conduct unannounced assessments in factories supplying affiliated companies worldwide. Since 2002, the FLA has conducted approximately 1,300 unannounced assessments. One of the reasons why our company decided to join the FLA is the transparency it provides. Reports of all assessments on our company, including the corrective action plans developed and implemented, are posted at www.fairlabor.org. To verify that affiliated companies and the factories they source from abide by this Code, the FLA has instituted a rigorous monitoring, remediation and verification system.

When our company joined the FLA, we committed to developing a comprehensive system to verify working conditions throughout our supply chain.

In addition, BRG has a Code of Conduct in place that outlines workplace standards and includes benchmarks on forced labor, hours of work, wages and benefits, health and safety, freedom of association, harassment or abuse, and others.

BRG requires that affiliated companies and the factories they source from sign a declaration that they abide by the Code of Conduct. BRG also has an internal audit system that is responsible for conducting independent, unannounced audits of suppliers and BRG employees and contractors to ensure compliance with BRG’s Code of Conduct.

In addition to the factory visits that we undertake or commission ourselves, a certain percentage of the factories we source from are subject to external, independent monitoring visits by the FLA. These visits are unannounced and the results of the audits are published on the FLA website. Connected with each monitoring event is the development of a remediation plan, which the FLA subsequently tracks to ensure implementation.

In 2011, the FLA accredited BRG’s’s compliance program, including its internal monitoring system. This means that the FLA considers our system to be in substantial compliance with FLA requirements.

BRG will provide training for employees who are directly responsible for managing supply chains at BRG. BRG maintains internal accountability for employees and contractors who fail to meet BRG’s standards.