{"content":[{"text":"California Transparency in Supply Chains Act Disclosure Statement for Fiscal Year 2020 \n Koppers is a leading integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment \n chemicals and carbon compounds. Our products and services are used in a variety of niche \n applications in a diverse range of end-markets, including the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, \n residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber, and construction industries. We serve \n our customers through a comprehensive global manufacturing and distribution network, with \n manufacturing capabilities located in North America, South America, Australasia and Europe. \n Koppers remains committed to safety in our supply chain as we strive to be the most valued \n supplier of quality products and services in the industries we serve. As set forth in the Koppers \n Code of Conduct, we commit to conducting our business in an ethical and responsible manner \n that supports and respects the protection of human rights, and we desire to do business with \n partners who aspire to conduct their business in a similar manner. Koppers upholds high ethical \n standards and values, which include prohibiting illegal or unethical employment or business \n practices, including child labor, forced labor, or other forms of slavery or human trafficking. \n Additional information can be located on our website, www.koppers.com. \n Verification \n Koppers has established RC 14001 compliant policies, processes, and procedures that start \n from the premise that full compliance with all applicable legal requirements is the minimum level \n of performance. This standard requires that Koppers, commensurate with risk, have systems to \n qualify and periodically review carriers, suppliers, distributors, customers, contractors, and third \n party providers based on, among other things, safety, health and environmental performance. \n Qualification of our “high-risk” carriers, suppliers, distributors, customers, contractors, and third \n party partners provides Koppers with a method to review our business partners’ commitment to \n safety, health and environmental performance. This process involves reviewing a third party \n partner’s management system, workers compensation loss history, OSHA incident rates, job \n related fatalities, recent regulatory citations (i.e., OSHA, EPA and DOT), insurance policies and \n other items by region such as whether the third party has a written safety policy, proof of \n competency (including employee training records), method statements relevant to the work to \n be carried out, risk assessments on the proposed project, and a review of other regulatory \n requirements applicable to the third party. This management system also requires these \n business partners certify to regulatory compliance and provide Koppers with a right to audit \n compliance with our requirements. While RC 14001 directs a certain level of regulatory \n compliance, which includes compliance with applicable labor laws, it does not contain \n requirements relating to human trafficking or slave labor specifically. Koppers does not utilize a \n third party to perform its verification processes. \n Audits \n The RC 14001 management system provides Koppers with a method to review our business \n partners’ commitment to safety, health and environmental performance and requires our \n business partners to provide Koppers with a right to audit compliance with our requirements. On \n a periodic basis, our third party partners are to provide a summary of their ongoing health and \n safety performance, including an evaluation of health and safety incident history and a \n description of corrective actions taken. Our policies also require that, on a periodic basis, we \n audit a sample of third party partners to review representations and documentation reported by","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.089024,"width":0.761496,"height":0.813722}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}