All supply chain actors are accountable for respecting human and labour rights in their operations, third-party relationships, and supply chains. In transport, this means accountability for the safety and rights of the workers providing the transport service, and any other intermediary workers involved in moving goods or passengers.
Companies and other supply chain actors must avoid causing or contributing to any adverse human rights impact through their own activities and address any impact when it does occur, including providing for or cooperating in remediation. Business practices, including contracting, pricing and other supply chain practices, must support, participate in, or incentivise respect for human rights, including international labour standards.
Companies and other supply chain actors must also seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts directly linked to their operations, products and services through their business relationships, encompassing relationships with business partners, other entities in a value chain and any other State or non-State entity.5 This includes working with business partners, suppliers and subcontractors to address actual or potential adverse human rights impacts.6 Companies and other supply chain actors must also not seek or accept exemptions contemplated in statutory or regulatory frameworks related to labour rights.
In conflict zones and territories where a host-state government is limited in its ability to protect the safety and welfare of transport workers, supply chain actors must also undertake enhanced HRDD measures to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how to address actual and potential impacts on workers in their operations and third-party relationships.