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Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessment

Human Rights

As part of our Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) process, the Company regularly conducts Human Rights Risk and Impact Assessments (HRRAs) across all operations and tier-1 supply chains on a three-year cycle, with a target to reach 95% coverage by 2030. Human rights issues are identified through multiple sources, including existing policies, self-assessment questionnaires, and document-based research, and further refined through workshops in which key internal stakeholders collaborated to identify human rights issues specific to their operational areas and local context. The identified risks are then assessed for potential impacts based on their severity and likelihood. This involves considering the scale, scope, and remediability, before being prioritized through a risk matrix to determine those issues posing the most significant harm and requiring immediate responses.

In 2025, the Company conducted a comprehensive HRRA at our operations in Australia and Thailand. The assessment highlighted 5 new critical risks to be prioritized as the highest across all or most sites: Psychosocial risks, Degradation of a clean and healthy environment, Absence of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Absence of community consultation, and Cultural heritage impacts. For each identified risk, we developed feasible mitigation strategies to effectively address and reduce potential negative consequences. Moving forward, Banpu will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these strategies as part of our HRDD cycle, ensuring continuous improvement.

Human Rights Principle

Human Rights Issue

Rights-holder/ Vulnerable Group

Mitigation Plan

Dignity, Equality, and Security

Psychosocial risks

Interference with Privacy

Internal grievance mechanisms

Employees and workers, third-party labor, women, elderly individuals, people with disabilities, migrant workers

• Developing awareness campaigns and training to educate employees, workers, and vulnerable groups about human rights, using various formats, such as workshops, seminars, and informational brochures.

• Implementing accessible grievance mechanism to ensure that relevant individuals can file complaints conveniently and fairly.

Labor rights

Unsafe and unhealthy working environment

Employees and workers, third-party labor, migrant workers, elderly workers, women, workers with disabilities

• Conducting regular assessments and health checks to ensure compliance with Occupational Health and Safety Policy.

• Developing training programs for management, employees, workers, and contractors, including third-party labor at the site to raise awareness and promote effective response.

Housing, Land, and Environment Rights

Degradation of a clean and healthy environment

Employees and workers, local communities, contractors, women, children, elderly individuals, people with disabilities

• Conducting environmental impact assessment and regular monitoring in operational areas and surrounding communities to ensure compliance.

• Establishing two-way communication with key rights-holders, such as local community leaders, to collectively identify needs, concerns, and expectations.

Community and Cultural Rights

Absence of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)

Absence of community consultation

Cultural heritage impacts

Local communities, indigenous peoples, women, children, elderly individuals, people with disabilities

• Implementing an indigenous peoples management plan where community resettlement is necessary.

• Conducting a comprehensive assessment of policies and processes to engage affected rights-holders, identify actual impacts and root causes.

• Establishing two-way communication with key rights-holders, such as local community leaders, to collectively identify needs, concerns, and expectations.

Value chain

Supply chain management

Third-party labor, women, children, elderly individuals, people with disabilities

• Conducting assessment of current policies, processes, and business practices for third-party risk assessment throughout the entire third-party engagement lifecycle.

• Incorporating ESG criteria into supplier selection.

• Communicating the Supplier Code of Conduct to contractors.

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