Human Rights

As an international business, Danzer has the potential to impact—positively and negatively—human rights in several respects. Therefore, Danzer considers potential impacts on human rights in our risk assessment of all activities, which is updated biannually. We look at the International Bill of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization Conventions, which are incorporated into the Danzer Code of Conduct. Danzer does not own or operate businesses in weak governance areas but does monitor its procurement and sales activities in these areas closely and puts prevention and mitigation measures in place to address identified risks.

Human Rights

Policies on Human Rights

Danzer’s Code of Conduct, risk assessment procedure and due diligence proactively address the following human rights and labor issues:

  • Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining

  • Child labor

  • Forced labor

  • Non-discrimination in respect of employment and occupation including gender equity 

  • Safe and healthy working environment

  • Wages

  • Working hours

  • Gender equality and women's rights

  • Freedom of expression

  • Digital security and privacy

  • Product and service end-user rights

  • Security arrangements

  • Right to clean and healthy environment: pollution, water, air and land

  • Land rights and rights of Indigenous Peoples

  • Rights of vulnerable groups and minorities

  • Raw material sourcing

Danzer is committed to these policies: carefully and dynamically enhancing them through collaboration of experts and team members within Danzer, approving them at the Board of Directors level, and applying them to all Danzer operations and suppliers.

Due Diligence

For the supply chain, Danzer’s due diligence on human rights starts with a comprehensive risk assessment, which informs a supplier due diligence procedure and is governed by a quality control procedure instituted in 2025. For exposure to violation of human rights in all areas, the comprehensive risk assessment identifies red flags or violations and trains all affected employees to identify, avoid and/or mitigate these. To date, no violations have been identified, and all red flags were managed by staff in an appropriate way.

Human rights risk assessment

(GRI 408-416). It is of utmost importance to engage stakeholders to better understand the risks and impacts in question. As explained in the Danzer Due Diligence 2025 document, Danzer carefully assesses all countries where it does business, whether operating, procuring and/or selling, for: human rights challenges within the country and local context, human rights impacts within its own operational activities, and finally relationships with government, business partners, suppliers and other non-state actors to consider potential implication/complicity in human rights abuse. 

Remedial Mechanisms

Though no adverse impacts in relation to human rights have been identified or caused in the past years, Danzer continues to monitor its value chain for such impacts. Danzer’s General Purchase Conditions (GPC) were updated in 2025 and a Quality Control Procedure was implemented to sample the supply chain for potential risk and/or to identify and mitigate problems. There have been occasions were potential suppliers refused to sign the GPC and therefore did not become Danzer suppliers.