SHELL
When considering ethical procurement at Shell , the company takes time to develop actions and solutions to diversify their suppliers , as well as how to ensure that workers ’ welfare rights and ethical standards are not only complied with , but substantially increased .
Artificial Intelligence also plays a significant role in the quality of Shell ’ s health and safety standards , with Voorn saying : “ As part of our process , we ask suppliers about their safety standards and worker-welfare policies . Some suppliers respond , some don ' t , or don ’ t do so quickly enough . In order to tackle this problem , we are building bots to ask these questions and to follow them up .
“ Once suppliers come back with their Health and Safety and Welfare Policy documents , they need , of course , to be fully read and digested . We typically know what kind of HSE ( Health , Safety and Environmental ) policy their documents should cover . With AI NLP ( Natural Language processing ) capabilities , we can see whether this document and their policy is up to a certain standard and whether it meets our thresholds , so we can then determine where there ’ s a safety risk for a specific category .
Shell ’ s Scope 3 ambitions and data driven sustainability As an energy company , Shell is looking at its own CO2 emissions , as well as Scope 2 and 3 – which includes the CO2 footprint of their suppliers . One of Shell ’ s policies , implemented last year , surrounds the company ’ s drive to identify those suppliers who want to actively reduce their CO2 footprint , who can then register themselves in the Supplier Energy Transition Hub ( a Shell-initiated programme ), which Shell has made available as a public application
60 October 2022