Modern Slavery Statement

Axil Integrated Services Limited (“Axil”) is a private limited company registered in England and Wales (registered number 09204100). Axil recognises the importance of corporate social responsibility and we are committed to operating ethically and with integrity in all our business activities and relationships.  We are fundamentally opposed to slavery and committed to understanding the risk of it and ensuring that is does not occur anywhere within our business and its supply chains.

This statement is made on behalf of Axil pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“the Act”) and constitutes our anti-slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 March 2024.

Axil is a total waste management company, which provides sustainable compliance-led waste management solutions for Britain’s more difficult to handle wastes. 

Axil operates a wide supplier base, including many contractors, consultants, companies and professional advisers.

Overall responsibility for Axil’s anti-slavery initiatives is held by the Company Secretary. Our Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy is available on request.

We have developed our Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy which states our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to aiming to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or in any of our supply chains.

The Policy sets out what we expect from our staff and our aims for our suppliers and sets out a framework for reporting concerns or issues in this area.

We have various options for raising concerns, such as our grievance policy, Ethics email address, a HR point of contact email address and display contact details of Senior Team members to contact which whilst not focused specifically on modern slavery, allows for a procedure for any employee or supplier to raise concerns or issues in confidence in this area.

As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we are looking at how best we can implement and enforce effective systems and controls to, as far as practical, monitor potential risk areas in our supply chain and protect whistle blowers.

We hope that all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values, and have implemented a Supplier Code of Conduct Policy, and this has been sent to our top 20 suppliers.

Our business activity takes place across the United Kingdom. As such, we have identified that the risk of modern slavery or human trafficking impacting our business or supply chain is comparatively low.

Despite this, we have highlighted that there are some areas of our operations that are more vulnerable to modern slavery than others, particularly in relation to certain suppliers and sub-contractors for services. To address this specific risk, we plan to include a clause in our standard terms and conditions requiring suppliers and contractors to acknowledge our commitment to combat modern slavery and human trafficking and to meet our ethical standards in this area.

To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we provide training to our key managers on this area.

In order to ensure that modern slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of our business or supply chains we are/will be:

• Reviewing our procurement and tender processes and procedures, so that they include references to modern slavery and human trafficking;
• Updating documentation to include specific reference to the Act to make clear our stance on this issue.
• Ensuring our whistleblowing policy and codes of conduct are communicated to our employees;
• Created a specific whistleblowing email for our suppliers to use to raise their concerns;
• Improving the awareness of our employees, customers and suppliers regarding the Modern Slavery Act 2015, including what constitutes modern slavery and human trafficking;
• Requiring all key staff complete training to ensure that they understand the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking infiltrating our business or supply chains;
• Being aware of the risk of slavery and human trafficking within our suppliers and supply chains.

This statement will be reviewed annually.