With limited exceptions that require Compliance Officer approval, Oxy’s contracts with other companies for international operations include provisions that make observance of human rights — and in the case of agreements for security services, the VPs — a contractual obligation.

Oxy’s Human Rights Policy and Code of Business Conduct (PDF) provide clear procedural guidelines that minimize the risk of human rights violations. Oxy’s Compliance Officers received no complaints or reported violations of the Human Rights Policy in 2010.

Companywide policies protect employees’ freedom of association and prohibit discrimination, forced or compulsory labor and child labor. In 2010, no Oxy operations were identified in which the right to exercise freedom of association was jeopardized. No incidents of forced or compulsory labor, or situations associated with child labor, were identified, nor were there any reported violations involving human rights of indigenous peoples associated with our operations.

OxyChem complies with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010, which requires manufacturers that do business in California to disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains. Read OxyChem’s statement (PDF) regarding the Act.