ERM Modern Slavery
Statement 2017
Note: This Statement is made pursuant to section 54(i) of the UK
Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes the Modern Slavery
Statement 2017 for ERM Worldwide Group Ltd and its global
subsidiaries.

ERM has a longstanding
commitment to ethical businessconduct in our operations andsupply chains, and is opposed to all
forms of corruption and unethicalbusiness conduct. We areparticularly strong supporters of theinternational effort to abolish allforms of modern slavery.
Accordingly, ERM provides oursecond Modern Slavery Statement
wherein we provide an overview ofthe approach and tools we have inplace to prevent modern slavery in
our business and supply chains (inmore detail than we provided in ourfirst Statement), and describe thespecific actions that we have takenin the past fiscal year. This
Statement also notes our next steps
on this topic planned for the fiscal
year ending 31 March 2018.

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Summary of Actions taken during fiscal year ending 31
March, 2017
The specific actions that ERM has taken during the fiscal
year ending 31 March 2017 to progress our efforts can besummarised as follows:
We have:• improved and expanded our global subcontractor
standards and systems;• as part of our internal audit and risk assessment
program, performed risk assessments on corruption
risks (including human rights abuses) and provided
preliminary education on modern slavery in some ofthe higher risk locations where we have offices: Brazil,China and Sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa,Mozambique and Kenya);• updated our values to include ‘caring for our people’to underline the absolute priority that we have always
maintained for the safety and health of our employees,
as well as our strong focus around the growth anddevelopment of our employees;• increased the work we do with our clients to help
them understand where risks of human rights abuse
may appear in their operations or supply chains, how
they can improve their performance to avoid theserisks from occurring, and/or how they might remedy
any cases if discovered;• carried out external engagement to inform andeducate ERM about international best practices toeliminate modern slavery as well using thisinformation to evolve our own approach; and,• introduced better strategic oversight of our efforts andplanning for actions to be taken in respect of modern
slavery in the next fiscal year.

Our Business
ERM is a leading global provider of sustainability
consultancy services, including environmental, health,safety, risk, social and human rights consulting services.
As a professional services firm that has operated for morethan 45 years, our people are our greatest asset. We havemore than 160 offices in over 40 countries and territories.
The Board of Directors and Executive Committee are
ERM's highest governing bodies. Our operational andgovernance structure is further detailed in ourSustainability Policy.
While our business is structured on a corporate model andis not a partnership in the legal sense, we use the term“Partner” to designate our top executives and leaders.
ERM is led by approximately 550 Partners and at any given
time, we have between 4,500 to 5,000 people working on
projects for clients around the world.
We provide both office-based services and on-site work allover the world. Our work takes us to manufacturing
plants, construction sites, mine sites, offshore and onshore
rigs, agricultural and rural areas. We provide services toclients in many countries and in all types of industries,
with a focus on the following key sectors: Oil and Gas,Mining, Power, Manufacturing, Technology, Media andTelecommunications, Chemical and Pharmaceutical, andBanking and Finance.
As part of our work we also act as advisors to multinational corporations on human rights and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). In our consulting work overthe past fiscal year, ERM has seen a significant increase in
the work we do with our clients to help them understandwhere risks of human rights abuses may appear in theiroperations or supply chains, how they can improve their

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performance to avoid these risks from occurring, and/or
how they might remedy any cases if discovered.
Our Supply Chain
Our supply chains include various forms of capital(human, financial and physical), and goods and services.
As a professional services firm, our people (human capital)
are our greatest asset. Financial capital enables us to growour business, while physical capital includes our 160
offices and site-based facilities. We require goods andservices for our global offices and to support our deliveryof projects to clients, including travel management,
technical and personal protection equipment, office and IT
equipment, facilities and maintenance providers as well as
specialist support from subcontractors.
Because ERM is a services company and not a products
company, we have decided to focus our modern slavery
efforts on subcontracted services as they are our primary
supply chain. Since 2008, ERM has required our global
subcontractors to commit to our anti-bribery/corruption
standards, which include the abolition of slavery andhuman trafficking. As noted in our 2017 Sustainability
Report, in the last fiscal year supply chain management of
our subcontractors has continued to be a key focus for us.
Our Policies
As we noted in our 2016 Modern Slavery Act Statement,
when the Modern Slavery Act 2015 was enacted, ERM
updated our Slavery, Child Labour and Human
Trafficking Policy in line with the terminology of that Act.
Accordingly, our policy prohibits the use of child or forced
labour in our business and any involvement by ERM withorganisations that support prohibited labour practices orhuman trafficking. This policy works in conjunction with
ERM’s Vision and Values and Code of Business Conductand Ethics wherein we express our corporate philosophy

of how we conduct business and provide the basis for
professional, respectful and fair dealings in our daily
operations. Additionally, ERM maintains a compliancereporting site, which offers a means for reporting or
raising concerns about any wrongdoing to the Group
Compliance Officer, in confidence and without fear ofretaliation.
ERM’s Sustainability Policy and Sustainability Approacharticulate our commitments to sustainability, and ERM
became a signatory of the UN Global Compact in 2011. Aspart of our ongoing support for the protection ofinternational human rights, we have continued to use ourUN commitment and other international developments asa basis to improve our policies, procedures, and approachto business. Our policy framework and corporate
governance disclosures associated with the Ten Principlesof the UN Global Compact, which include points on anticorruption and human rights, are mapped in ERM’s 2017
Sustainability Report along with further details ofoperational and governance structure.
Our Partners use our vision, values, policies, and internal
governance arrangements to lead an ERM culture based onsustainability principles, including fair labour and humanrights. Our ability to attract, develop, reward and retain
talented employees is central to our business strategy andvital to our future. As part of ERM’s new corporate
Strategy, which we started rolling out in May 2016, weupdated our values to include ‘caring for our people’ tounderline the absolute priority that we have always
maintained for the safety and health of our employees, aswell as our strong focus on the growth and development ofour employees. ERM strives to provide a work
environment where all employees have an equal
opportunity to reach their full potential and contribute toour success.

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Our Due Diligence and Risk Management Efforts
ERM has processes in place to support on-goingassessment and management of risks associated with ourdirect business operations and business relationships. We
do not work with clients, suppliers or sub-contractors
whom we know not to share our commitment to highethical standards, and we would correct any situation if
cases were ever discovered.
ERM believes that the greatest potential for risk to humanrights (and for modern slavery) exists with oursubcontractors and suppliers.
ERM’s Global Contractor Management Program provides
a centrally managed global process for prequalifying
contractors, collecting relevant information for more
effective decision-making and risk reduction, and adding
value to services provided to our clients by reducing theirrisk around our use of contractors. As the program isimplemented around the world, it provides a consistent
approach for mandating contractors to adhere to therequirements of our policies– including a prohibition on
the use of forced and slave labour – and to track theircompliance. During our fiscal year ending 31 March 2017,
we have extended the program to additional geographiesand piloted a tailored approach for smaller sub contractors.
Suppliers of goods and services for our offices aremanaged separately by our business units.
We recognize different geographic locations and sectors
present higher risks of slavery and human trafficking thanothers. For this reason ERM has been performing
assessments on corruption risks, including human rights
abuses, as part of our internal audit and risk assessment
program since 2011. The assessments have focused
primarily on recognized industry and geographic
corruption risks faced by our staff in numerousjurisdictions ranked as “high risk” on the Transparency
International Corruption Perception Index. Based on ourassessments over the past several years, ERM believes thatthe risk of slavery and human trafficking within ouremployed staff is negligible. This conclusion is also basedon our global commitment to the recruitment of highly
skilled professionals, our commitment to ensuring thesafety and security of our workforce, the monitoring andauditing of our global employment practices, as well as theeducation of our staff on ethics, management expectations,and international standards.

engagements related to modern slavery in the last year.
Examples include:••••

During our last fiscal year, ERM performed risk
assessments, as well as preliminary education on modern
slavery in some of the higher risk locations where we haveoffices: Brazil, China and Sub-Saharan Africa (SouthAfrica, Mozambique and Kenya) operations. From a baseof publicly available materials relating to modern slavery
risks around the world, as well as our general inquiries, wedetermined key risk issues to focus on in each jurisdiction.
We conducted interviews of ERM staff from all levels andfunctions within these businesses. We then examinedinternationally recognized risks and data in the context ofERM business risk. The risk assessments last year covered
different risk perspectives for geography (including urbanvs rural), industry, types of humanitarianabuses/corruption, and the type of ERM service.
Our global programs, as described above, help us to
manage these risks. In addition, we are exploring ways wemight improve our identification of modern slavery andleverage our influence to remediate cases if ever found.

This external engagement enables ERM to contribute tointernational best practices to eliminate modern slaveryand we are using this information to evolve our own
approach.
Our Next Steps
This year we have reviewed how to improve our strategic
oversight for modern slavery risk assessments and actions
within our business, as part of our compliance andassurance program. For the fiscal year ending 31 March2018, we are intending to evolve our commitment andendeavours related to modern slavery as follows:••

Our External Engagement
In addition to our work for clients on modern slavery
matters and the external supply chain engagement
described above, ERM participated in a number of external

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participation in the Working Group on ModernSlavery facilitated by the UK chapter of the United
Nations Global Compact;
participation in a World Business Council on
Sustainable Development (WBCSD) workshop on
Human Rights and Business in the UK;
chairing a conference on Conflict Minerals, including
slavery in mineral supply chains;attending and reporting on the 60th Session of the UN
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) on
Women’s Empowerment and SustainableDevelopment.

•develop and implement global slavery awarenesstraining for all staff;
continue to do geographic corruption risk assessments
as part of our internal audit governance focused onhigh risk areas;
continue to expand and improve subcontractor
management in the many jurisdictions where we haveoffices;•••

develop a code of conduct for our suppliers;
continue to protect the rights of our staff throughrobust policies and procedures and evolve ourapproach to diversity in the business; and,expand our work with clients and maintain active
involvement in industry forums and working groups
to promote the elimination of slavery around theworld.

We will provide detail on progress made and ourperformance in next year’s Statement.
ERM is committed to the goal of respect for human rights
and a world free of slavery, and in furtherance of this goal,
we will make efforts that extend beyond our own
immediate organizational interests. Not only will wecontinue to set internal goals, we will also participate inbuilding external standards and providing education sothat momentum not only builds in our sphere of businessinfluence but beyond, fully aligned with our purpose ofshaping a more sustainable future with the world’s leadingorganisations.
Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors and Executive
Committee:
Keryn JamesGroup Chief Executive
Signed: 7 September 2017 for financial year 2017 (1 April 2016 to 31
March 2017) for ERM Worldwide Group Ltd and its global
subsidiaries.

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