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Labour & Human Rights Risk Management Tool

Labour & Human Rights Risk you can measure and manage

Independent, verified intelligence to identify, assess, and act on modern slavery, human rights, and workplace risk across your supply chain

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Assess modern slavery & human rights risk

Understand real risk in your supply chain

Our Labour & Human Rights Risk Management Tool enables organisations to identify, assess, and act on supply chain risk. It moves beyond inherent risk scoring by incorporating verified control measures to calculate residual risk, providing a more realistic and decision-useful view of exposure.


Whether you’re managing modern slavery reporting, vendor due diligence, or ongoing supplier risk, it gives you the structure, data, and evidence to act with confidence and defend your decisions when it counts.

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Actionable intelligence for modern slavery and human rights risk

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Stop chasing suppliers for answers

Too many ESG and procurement teams spend significant time and resources collecting supplier information, only to end up with incomplete data they can’t fully rely on. The Labour & Human Rights Risk Platform draws on verified external data to give you a clearer picture of supplier risk, without the back-and-forth.

Focus your attention where it matters most

Not every supplier carries the same risk. The platform helps you identify where risk is highest and controls are weakest, so your team can prioritise meaningful engagement rather than spreading effort evenly across your supply base. Track changes over time and demonstrate measurable progress.

Enhance Modern Slavery reporting with audit ready data and reports

The platform provides a documented risk methodology, evidence of supplier prioritisation, and exportable reports, strengthening reporting defensibility and audit readiness.

Make smarter procurement decisions from the start

Labour and human rights risk doesn’t have to be an afterthought in vendor selection. With consistent, data-driven risk profiles for prospective suppliers, your procurement team can spot red flags before contracts are signed. This reduces exposure and gives you greater confidence that the suppliers you onboard meet your standards.

Get supply chain visibility beyond Tier 1

Most organisations only see Tier 1 suppliers. Through economic modelling and trade data, the platform provides a view of inherent risk exposure beyond Tier 1, supporting more informed disclosures and strategic mitigation.

Save time for capacity-constrained teams

Some ESG and Procurement teams do not have the time or headcount to conduct meaningful supplier engagement. The Labour & Human Rights Platform provides a structured starting point and prioritised supplier lists, enabling teams to move from little engagement to risk-based engagement without building a system from scratch.

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PB helps your team stay in sync and on track with all ESG and Climate reporting

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Single source of truth for your supply chain's climate data

Unparalleled Transparency

Granular, Australian-focused and Global data on your suppliers’ actual emissions and forward-looking climate commitments

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Automate recurring to-dos so nothing falls through the cracks.
Perfect for weekly check-ins, content reviews, or monthly reports.

Strategic Insights

The clarity to move beyond compliance and mitigate hidden risks.

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Built by ESG Pros Who Got Tired of Bad Data.

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Purpose Bureau is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) data bureau founded in 2021 to help organisations understand the climate impact and ESG risk of their supply chain. We organise, transform, and analyse data on Australian businesses. Our unique data and insights increase transparency in ESG reporting.

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Save 50% more time accounting scope3 emissions with our smart tools.

Faster

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5x faster faster ESG reporting compared to manual data collection.

Visibility

100%

Achieve 100% supply chain visibility across corporate groups.

Users

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Join 10,000+ users who
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Frequently Asked Questions

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What type of data does the Human Rights Risk Management Platform use?

The platform is built on verified data drawn from hundreds of global sources, including public registries, enforcement records, workplace regulators, sanctions lists, accreditations, ethical certifications and proprietary corporate grouping data.

 

This data is structured and backed by a quality assurance process to support defensible risk assessment, not just surface level signal aggregation.

Risk is calculated using a three part framework:

 

  •   Inherent risk based on country and industry exposure
  •   Controls assessment across direct operations and supply chains
  •   Residual risk scoring, which reflects the risk that remains after controls are considered

 

This provides a more realistic and decision useful view than inherent only approaches. Risk is also assessed at corporate group level and supported by tiered supply chain modelling to understand exposure beyond direct suppliers.

The Labour & Human Rights Risk Management Platform is commonly used by:

  • ESG and sustainability teams for modern slavery and human rights reporting
  • Risk and compliance teams for structured due diligence
  • Procurement teams for supplier screening and onboarding

It supports both strategic oversight and operational decision making.

No. The Labour & Human Rights Platform reduces reliance on blanket supplier questionnaires by using verified external data to assess inherent risk, controls and residual risk purely from your supplier spend data. You can assess suppliers without waiting for responses or chasing documentation.

However, targeted engagement is supported where required to better understand the controls your suppliers have in place to manage their labour and human rights exposure. Rather than sending long generic surveys, you can focus engagement on specific control gaps or high residual risk suppliers.

Yes. Suppliers are categorised by residual risk so you can clearly identify which require further review, engagement or documentation. This enables structured, risk-based prioritisation rather than treating all suppliers equally.

Modern slavery refers to situations where people are exploited through forced labour, debt bondage, human trafficking, or other forms of coercion, often without visibility to the businesses whose supply chains they work in. Supply chain modern slavery risk is the likelihood that these practices exist among the suppliers, subcontractors, or upstream producers a business trades with. 
 
Risk varies significantly by industry and country. Labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and logistics in certain geographies carry substantially higher inherent risk than others. However, inherent risk alone does not tell the full story. A supplier operating in a high-risk context may have strong controls in place, while a lower-risk supplier may have none. Purpose Bureau’s platform calculates residual risk, the risk that remains after controls are considered, giving organisations a more accurate and decision-useful view of where modern slavery risk actually sits in their supply chain. 
Inherent risk reflects the baseline risk associated with a supplier’s industry and country of operation. It is a useful starting point, but it does not account for what a supplier is actually doing to manage that risk. Two suppliers in the same industry and country can have very different risk profiles depending on their certifications, policies, audit history, workforce practices, and supply chain controls. 
 
Residual risk is what remains after those controls are factored in. It is a more accurate and decision-useful measure because it reflects real exposure rather than assumed exposure. A supplier with high inherent risk but strong, verified controls may warrant less urgent attention than a supplier with moderate inherent risk and no controls at all. 
 
Purpose Bureau calculates residual risk by combining inherent risk scoring with a verified controls assessment across direct operations and supply chains. This gives sustainability, risk, and procurement teams a prioritised view of where engagement, escalation, or further due diligence is genuinely needed, rather than spreading effort evenly across a supplier base that does not carry equal risk. 
 
Risk varies significantly by industry and country. Labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and logistics in certain geographies carry substantially higher inherent risk than others. However, inherent risk alone does not tell the full story. A supplier operating in a high-risk context may have strong controls in place, while a lower-risk supplier may have none. Purpose Bureau’s platform calculates residual risk, the risk that remains after controls are considered, giving organisations a more accurate and decision-useful view of where modern slavery risk actually sits in their supply chain. 

No, but it enables more effective engagement. Residual risk scoring helps you focus conversations where they are genuinely required, reducing unnecessary outreach while strengthening targeted supplier discussions.

Yes. The Human Rights Risk Management Platform supports modern slavery statements, human rights due diligence, ESG reporting, procurement risk reviews and internal assurance processes. Outputs are structured and audit ready, strengthening reporting defensibility and alignment with regulatory expectations.

Most organisations are onboarded within days. Once vendor lists with spend data are uploaded, dashboards are typically available within a few days.

Yes. You can assess prospective suppliers before onboarding, helping you make smarter supplier choices and reduce preventable risk exposure. This allows procurement and ESG teams to integrate labour and human rights risk directly into vendor evaluation processes.

Yes. The Labour & Human Rights Platform allows you to track changes in supplier risk across reporting periods and monitor improvements or escalations. This supports measurable progress rather than static annual reporting.

In Australia, the Modern Slavery Act 2018 requires entities with annual consolidated revenue of $100 million or more to report annually on the modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains, and the actions taken to address them. Statements must be approved by the board and submitted to the Australian Modern Slavery Register. Similar legislations are also in place or being considered globally. 
 
Reporting organisations are expected to identify and assess risk, describe the actions taken in response, and assess the effectiveness of those actions over time. Regulators and investors are increasingly scrutinising the quality of statements, not just their existence, which means vague or boilerplate responses carry reputational and, increasingly, legal risk. 
 
Purpose Bureau’s platform provides the risk methodology, supplier prioritisation evidence, and audit-ready documentation needed to produce a defensible modern slavery statement, and to demonstrate genuine improvement year on year. 
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) requires companies to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for adverse human rights and environmental impacts across their operations and value chains. Similar obligations exist under the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG), the French Duty of Vigilance Law, and a growing number of national frameworks globally. 
 
These laws share a common requirement: organisations must demonstrate a structured, evidence-based process for identifying and addressing risk, not just a policy statement. Purpose Bureau’s platform is built around that requirement. It provides verified risk identification, residual risk scoring, documented methodology, and exportable evidence, giving legal, risk, and sustainability teams the structured due diligence record that regulators and auditors expect. As these frameworks continue to expand in scope and enforcement, having a defensible and repeatable process in place becomes increasingly important. 
Yes. Most organisations only have direct visibility of their Tier 1 suppliers, but modern slavery and human rights risk often sits deeper in the supply chain, in the raw materials, components, and services that your suppliers themselves procure. Through economic input-output modelling and trade data, the platform maps inherent risk exposure across Tier 2 and beyond, giving you a more complete picture of where risk actually concentrates in your value chain. This supports more informed disclosures and helps you prioritise engagement upstream where it matters most. 

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To equip responsible organisations with independent, high integrity ESG intelligence

We started Purpose Bureau because ESG, Finance, and Procurement teams were being asked to make complex claims without reliable data. Too much work relied on manual spreadsheets and self reporting. We knew there was a better way.

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