Human Rights and Embracement
Human Rights and Embracement
Declaration and
Policy on
Human
Rights Management
Hanwha Ocean recognizes the importance of human rights and protects and respects those of all stakeholders including executives, employees, suppliers, customers, and local communities. The CEO has declared Human Rights Management to uphold responsibilities in line with domestic and international human rights laws and regulations and international standards such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. All executives and employees adopt this Declaration as their code of conduct and value judgment standard in practice.
Hanwha Ocean has established a Human Rights Management policy and system for implementation. This policy includes processes for human rights impact assessments and grievance procedures. The declaration and policy aim to prevent all forms of discrimination and harassment ensuring all stakeholders are respected in a safe environment while valuing diversity. We also stipulate freedom of association and collective bargaining, compliance with working conditions, prohibition of forced labor, supply chain management, protection of community and customer human rights, and environmental rights guarantee.
Human Rights Training
Hanwha Ocean operates various human rights training programs to establish a culture of respect for human rights and enable all executives and employees to practice human rights management. To foster an atmosphere of respect for human rights throughout the company, we run human rights training programs related to sexual harassment prevention, workplace bullying prevention, and disability awareness. Human rights training is conducted for at least 4 hours per employee.
Foreign Worker
Human
Rights
Training
Hanwha Ocean provides dedicated human rights training for foreign workers in addition to legally mandated training, aiming to foster mutual respect and understanding as the number of multinational workers increases. The program focuses on challenges foreign workers face in unfamiliar environments, helping domestic employees understand multiculturalism and overcome biases. Emphasizing that cultural differences are not ‘wrong’ but simply ‘different’, we conducted country-specific cultural awareness and colleague sensitivity training in October 2024 for team leaders, part leaders, and site managers across 16 organizations initially employing foreign workers. We plan to expand global communication training to all employees to further protect the human rights of foreign workers employed by supplier companies.
Protection of
Vulnerable
Groups
Hanwha Ocean implements various policies to ensure the safety and fundamental rights of all workers regardless of nationality. To support multinational workers with differences in culture, safety, and human rights understanding, we provide basic Korean language and job training, along with mandatory safety training in local languages to all new hires. We also conduct mentoring activities to help them adapt more stably. To overcome language barriers, we operate coordinators providing interpretation/translation support for eight countries including Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan, and plan to expand the number of countries and scale of coordinator operations as multicultural workers increase.