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Every year, we conduct human rights assessments of our business sites and suppliers in order to prevent and reduce human rights risks, as defined in our Human Rights Management Policy and Detailed Operational Guidelines. At our business sites, we conduct employee surveys that include items relating to human rights in order to assess compliance with the aforementioned policy and guidelines. We also conduct ESG surveys that include human rights matters on our suppliers, as well as on-site due diligence at worksites where key risks were identified. If human rights risks are discovered during these processes, we take action to identify and address related issues as part of our efforts to protect human rights company-wide.

Hyundai Steel conducted the 2020 human rights assessment across all domestic business sites(7) and overseas manufacturing subsidiaries(16) in accordance with our human rights assessment process. As a result, two business sites were found to have issues - “lack of grievance resolution channels and mechanisms” and “discrimination in the workplace”. In response, we established a communication channel, “To CEO”, that guarantees anonymous reporting of grievance, took disciplinary measures against the perpetrators, and provided online training on “Prevention of harassment in the workplace” in order to address workplace harassment. In addition, we expanded the human rights assessment across 350 suppliers in 2020, as part of our Supply Chain ESG. A total of 20 suppliers were found to have human rights issues, such as insufficient regulations on the discrimination of minority groups, and the absence of systems to check work hours. Among the 20, 18 suppliers revised their internal regulations or established guidelines on employment in order to address the issues identified in the assessment, and received confirmation by the Company on their improvement.(26 out of 37 suppliers which have had human rights issues over the past three years have completed improvement measures.)