HP 2015 Sustainability Report

Introduction

Environment

Society

Integrity

About this report

Working hours and day of rest The HP Supplier Code of Conduct states that weekly working hours must not exceed 60 hours including overtime, except in the case of an emergency or unusual situation. Yet the risk of excessive working hours remains high—particularly in China, where there is an increasing labor shortage and IT industry production is concentrated. Excessive working hours remained a top audit finding in 2015, and we continue to work with our suppliers and industry partners to achieve lasting improvements in this area. KPI results show that in 2015, 88% of workers related to HP production were in conformance with working hours requirements, an improvement from 84% in 2014. We also require that all suppliers grant their workers one day of rest in every 7-day period. On average, 96% conformed to day of rest requirements during the year. Temporary workforce HP encourages suppliers to hire full-time direct labor to meet ongoing capacity require- ments because temporary workers are often more vulnerable to exploitation. HP’s guidelines specify that less than 10% of total workers at a supplier facility should be temporary. Supplier conformance with the company’s expectations about temporary workforce increased from 64% in 2014 to 78% in 2015. Student workers The People’s Republic of China has a legal requirement that student workers can only work in the context of an internship and with the purpose of advancing their studies. The HP Student and Dispatch Worker Standard reiterates these standards and goes further, requiring no more than 20% direct labor of student workers for HP production in China. In 2015, 91% of participating sites maintained student worker levels at no more than 20% of the total workforce related to HP production. See Young, dispatch, and student workers for more information.

96 % of workers related to HP production received at least one day of rest every week in 2015

Ensuring a healthy and safe workplace

Workers have the right to a healthy and safe workplace. HP analyzes information from our supplier monitoring program, worker and stakeholder engagement efforts, and other external sources to identify and prevent health and safety risks. In 2015, Hewlett-Packard Company increased the number of health and safety assessments to 42, nearly twice as many as in 2014. In 2015, Hewlett-Packard Company and Social Accountability International (SAI), an international NGO focused on social responsibility standards, launched TenSquared for the first time in China, at two supplier factories. TenSquared is a workshop that increases dialogue between workers and managers and enables them to collaborate and solve a site-specific health and safety challenge over a 100-day period. One of the suppliers in the program achieved its goal of decreasing evacuation time from 12 minutes to 3 minutes, and the other supplier reached their goal of addressing 75% of identified ergonomics risks.

Workers and managers at a supplier site in Zhuhai, China, strategize evacuation plans for their TenSquared health and safety challenge.

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