ABB is committed to respecting the dignity and human rights of all individuals, and to timely and transparently remediating impacts in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Our ambition is for human rights to be well understood and managed along our entire value chain and integrated into ABB’s daily business.
ABB supports and respects the international frameworks including but not limited to the International Bill of Human Rights, the ILO Core Conventions on Labour Standards, the UNGPs on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
We work to ensure that all our stakeholders, including employees, customers, consumers, end users, business partners, suppliers, shareholders and the communities and societies we serve, are treated with respect and fairness at all times.
Our commitment and expectations to respect, protect and promote human rights is underpinned by the ABB Code of Conduct and our Supplier Code of Conduct, and entails every individual who works for ABB or engages with us along our value chain.
2024 highlights in our operations
- Expanded human rights training offering with a total of 7,313 sessions, totaling 5,503 training hours.
- Enhanced the ABB human rights due diligence in operations.
- SSBM programs and suppliers audits aligned to the ABB Supplier Code of Conduct.
Our salient human rights issues
Other Policy Documents
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ABB Code of Conduct
Supplier Code of Conduct
ABB Policy on Conflict Minerals
Grievance mechanisms and remedy
Reports and Disclosures
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Modern Slavery Statement
ABB sustainability reports, policies and documents
Sustainability Disclosure Dashboard
Promoting social progress
ABB is committed to doing its part to enable and support thriving communities and healthy social conditions.