At Quantum Design Oxford, we are committed to preventing acts of modern slavery and human trafficking from occurring within our business and supply chain. We take a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of modern slavery, including servitude, forced, bonded and compulsory labour, and human trafficking, and we expect our suppliers to adopt the same approach.
This statement is made in accordance with Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the "Act") and constitutes our anti-slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 30 September 2025 for Oxford NanoScience Ltd, trading as Quantum Design Oxford ("the Company"). The Company has circa 220 employees, and an annualised turnover in excess of the qualifying level set in the Act.
This statement has been approved by the Directors of the Company.
As part of our commitment to combatting modern slavery and human trafficking, we have developed and maintain internal policies and procedures to reinforce our approach. These documents are designed to be easy to use and are intended to assist our employees in their due diligence of suppliers.
A copy of our policies is available on request by emailing us at info@qd-oxford.com.
We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and to putting in place effective systems and controls which aim to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our business or in our supply chains. As part of this commitment, we focus on the welfare and safety of individuals at potential risk, undertake periodic due diligence reviews of our key suppliers and, where appropriate, provide support and guidance to help suppliers to address any concerns they might have in their own business and supply chain.
We take a risk-based approach and have developed our processes to create profiles of key and high-risk suppliers. Both new and existing key and high-risk suppliers are expected to adopt the same or similar standards to those contained within our policies and to hold their own suppliers to the same or similar standards.
We operate our business in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including laws against modern slavery, and we expect our suppliers to do the same. In addition, we endeavour to include provisions within our purchase contracts that require suppliers to warrant that in performing their contractual obligations they will ensure that they and their sub-contractors shall:
We believe in the importance of educating our employees on human rights issues and have developed bespoke training for relevant employees to help them to recognise the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chain.
Through this training, our employees are guided to use our procedures to raise any concerns they might have, which includes access to an independent whistleblowing service.
Our third-party whistleblowing hotline is a fully confidential and independent service which provides a process to promptly raise concerns, including any concerns pertaining to violations of human rights.
This service is an added measure to ensure our compliance with all legal obligations and enhances our ability to promptly address ethical concerns, including those related to human rights. During or following any visits with suppliers, our employees are expected to escalate conduct and/or ethical concerns of any type.
Employees also have access to an Employee Forum via their Employee Representatives. Employee Representatives have the opportunity to raise and discuss topics of concern with members of the Senior Management Team at regular Employee Forum meetings.
To date, we have not identified any current suspected incidences of modern slavery in our business or supply chain. However, there is no room for complacency. We will continue to take active steps, as set out below, to identify and mitigate any risks arising in our own operations or our supply chain.
Matt Martin, Managing Director
Oxford Nanoscience Limited, trading as Quantum Design Oxford
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