Integrating Human Rights in Business Risk Processes

This tool from the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) can help you to better understand how human rights issues can be integrated within existing processes that businesses have in place to assess and manage business risks. The guide outlines a broad range of approaches to help better integrate human rights issues into business processes, and these approaches are situated into different stages in the risk management process: reflecting human rights issues and policy commitments in business objectives and strategy; building human rights into the risk assessment process for conducting assessment; integrating a human rights lens into the detailed risk assessment procedures for assessing business risks; and applying a human rights lens to risk control measures that are identified to manage risks. This guidance also features focusing questions and preventative and corrective controls for integrating human rights in risk processes for various issue areas, such as worker rights, workplace diversity, workplace health and safety, Indigenous Peoples & FPIC, cultural heritage, resettlement, and more.

Although these guidelines are based on ICMM member company experience, they are broadly applicable to companies across the industrial spectrum.