MTU products and services, as well as our business activities overall, have a potential effect on the climate, the environment, and thus on people’s living conditions. For this reason, in addition to safeguarding human rights, MTU practices environmental due diligence at all Group companies and in our supply chain. Stipulated in our Code of Conduct for suppliers, this is a binding part of our General Terms and Conditions of Purchase and contractual agreements.
At MTU, we ensure that human rights are upheld at all our locations, including in the context of local conditions. This is spelled out in our internal Code of Conduct, which is binding for all employees at our locations worldwide, and we provide regular training in this area. Compliance with the Code of Conduct and ethical principles is enshrined in the MTU Principles.
Respecting human rights also applies to the actions of our suppliers, service providers, and other business partners in our supply chain.
MTU’s Human Rights Officer is responsible for evaluating reports of potential human rights violations and for monitoring human rights risk management (in accordance with Germany’s Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains). The Human Rights Officer is assisted in their duties by other members of the human rights team. The most important task for human rights coordinators working in the areas of purchasing, human resources, and environmental protection is to produce the annual risk assessment for human rights violations and environmental due diligence at our locations and at our direct suppliers, including suspected cases.
Reports of alleged human rights violations are submitted through our iTrust whistleblower system.
