Human rights

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, our Human Rights Policy and Due Diligence Framework, 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

Human rights policies and codes

Human Rights Policy and Due Diligence Framework (updated October 2024)

Human Rights Policy (December 2023)

Human Rights Policy and Statement (January 2020)

Social Policy (January 2020)

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2024 highlights in our operations

Human rights policies and codes

Human Rights Policy and Due Diligence Framework (updated October 2024)

Reports and disclosures

Our memberships

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2024 highlights in our operations

Human rights policies and codes

Human Rights Policy and Due Diligence Framework (updated October 2024)

Policy archive

Reports and disclosures

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