Modern slavery and human trafficking statement

Introduction

This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement is a response to Section 54(1), Part 6 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and relates to actions and activities for the financial year ending 31 December 2021.

Epitechnic Ltd. (‘the Company’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking violations in its own operations, its supply chain, and its products. We have zero-tolerance towards slavery and require our supply chain to comply with our values.

Organisational structure

Epitechnic Ltd. Has business operations in the United Kingdom.

We operate in the consulting sector. The nature of our supply chain is as follows: we provide consulting services to other organisations.

For more information about the Company, please visit our website: epitechnic.com

Due diligence

As part of our efforts to monitor and reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chain, we have adopted due diligence procedures.

Our due diligence procedures aim to:

• Identify and action potential risks in our supply chains
• Monitor potential risks in our business and supply chains
• Reduce the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our business and supply chains

Risk and compliance

The Company has evaluated the nature and extent of its exposure to the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in its UK supply chain.

We do not consider that we operate in a high-risk environment.

We do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains. Where there is evidence of failure to comply with our procedures by any of our suppliers, we will require that supplier to remedy the non-compliance

Effectiveness

We cannot say with any certainty how effective the steps we are taking have been in ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in our business and supply chains. As part of our work for the next financial year, we will be considering how best to monitor the effectiveness of the actions taken.

The statement was approved by the board of directors.

Paul Walker, Director
Epitechnic Ltd
05/01/2022