Thai Roong Ruang

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company recognises the specific health and safety risks to vulnerable groups such as pregnant female workers.

Act ethically
The company discloses a privacy statement on the use of personal data and discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. Additionally, it expects its suppliers to provide a safe workplace that does not endanger the health of Employees, including basic welfare for drinking water, clean bathrooms, and all forms of housing must be clean, safe, and sanitary.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that demonstrates its commitment to respecting human rights. Furthermore, it has implemented a human rights grievance mechanism that is accessible not only to all workers but also to external stakeholders who may be negatively affected by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company discloses its target to purchase 87,000 tones of sugarcane leaves in order to reduce 10,182 tonCO2e GHG emissions. However, no evidence found that it discloses quantitative reductions for its scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as well as report progress against these targets. It can also align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Similarly, it has an opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, set relevant time-bound targets and report its progress towards these targets. The company can also align its scope 3 emission targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, it can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. It could also disclose a target to improve soil health and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to showcase that all of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or another widely recognized certification program specific to the industry. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to identify vulnerable groups in relation to health and safety.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contractual agreements with business relationships. While the company has a business ethics for partners in which it prohibits bribery and corruption, it is not clear that it is mandatory and that supplier contracts/relationships could be terminated with a breach of the business ethics for partners.

Furthermore, it could disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption and a grievance mechanism allowing stakeholders to raise related concerns. The company also has an opportunity to disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document and state that it does not make political contributions and divulge its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Additionally, the company could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support its suppliers in paying a living wage. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Additionally, it could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. The company could specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered such as geographical, economic and social factors, and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.