Austin Powder acknowledges this imperative, striving beyond mere legal compliance to foster a culture of ethical excellence that influences every facet of its operations.

Understanding the extensive impact of its decisions and actions on stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, communities, and the environment. Austin Powder commits to ensuring its presence results in a positive and sustainable legacy.

Austin Powder’s day-to-day decision-making is guided by and follows a set of principles that all business units embrace and take as a reference:

Individual Responsibility

The Code of Ethics is instrumental in promoting an ethical business culture at Austin Powder. Robust policies and practices are implemented to cultivate ethical conduct and individual responsibility throughout the organization.

Many sites have a version of this code whereby training sessions are conducted to educate employees on ethical issues, fostering an environment where they feel secure and empowered to raise concerns. Furthermore, open communication channels are maintained to promptly and effectively address any ethical issues as they arise. We will move to a common Code of Ethics and Business Conduct Policy augmented with local training.

Creating a Safe, Inclusive, & Respectful Work Environment

Austin Powder is aware of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and is seeking to implement the United Nations ¨Protect, Respect, and Remedy¨ framework in the years to come.

Austin Powder understands its responsibility to respect human rights meaning that they should avoid infringing on the human rights of others and should address adverse human rights impacts with which they are involved.

Austin Powder’s responsibility to respect human rights refers to internationally recognized human rights – understood, at a minimum, as those expressed in the International Bill of Human Rights and the principles concerning fundamental rights set out in the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

Austin Powder is seeking to avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through its own activities, address such impacts when they occur, and prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are directly linked to its operations, products, or services by its business relationships, even if it has not contributed to those impacts.

To meet its responsibility to respect human rights, Austin Powder will develop policies and processes, including:

• A policy commitment to meet their responsibility to respect human rights
• A human rights due diligence process to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for how they address their impacts on human rights
• Processes to enable the remediation of any adverse human rights