Human Rights Risk and Saliency Assessments
Prioritising risks for meaningful action
Understand the most salient risk issues and drive meaningful action
Understanding and addressing human rights risks is a critical component of effective due diligence.
Our human rights risk and saliency assessments provide companies with a clear picture of where in their operations and value chain potential impacts may arise and help prioritise those areas that require deeper attention.
By helping our clients identifying their most salient risk issues, we enable organisations to focus resources where they matter most, understand risk drivers, strengthen risk management and sequence actions for maximum impact.
What are human rights risk and saliency assessments
Human rights risk and saliency assessments are a key component of robust human rights due diligence. They provide companies with a comprehensive view of potential human rights impacts across their operations, value chain and business relationships. By identifying the most significant human rights risks, they enable prioritisation of those areas requiring deeper analysis and enhanced risk management.
Human rights risk and saliency assessments are also and increasingly a legal requirement – for example, the EU CSDDD, the Modern Slavery Acts in the UK and Australia or the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act all require companies in scope to analyse their human rights risks.
Our Human Rights Risk and Saliency Assessment services
We have a wealth of expertise in conducting human rights risk and saliency assessments that are fit for purpose and help our clients drive action.
Global risk screening
We screen global operations, value chains and business relationships to identify which human rights risks are relevant, where and why, taking into account structural risk drivers.
Data-driven insights
Our assessments leverage LRQA’s proprietary EiQ platform, with thousands of data points to support the identification of evidence-based risk trends and patters.
Strategic prioritisation
We help you prioritisze human rights risks using a framework that is aligned with both international standards and business needs.
Stakeholder engagement
Our process builds on meaningful engagement with internal and external stakeholders to validate insights and strengthen risk management.
Why work with us?
Deep expertise
Our team has 20+ years of experience supporting leading companies on human rights risk and saliency assessments, combining deep technical expertise with practical knowledge.
Turning insight into action
Our assessments are designed to enable real change, not just compliance. We work closely with your teams to understand your business and ensure results that can inform meaningful action.
Global intelligence, local expertise
Through the EiQ platform and our global network of experts, we are able to combine data-driven intelligence with local expertise. Our understanding of risk dynamics across different sectors and geographies is strong.
Regulatory alignment
We monitor regulatory requirements – from CSRD to CSDDD to modern slavery legislation – and design risk assessment solutions that support compliance with diverse due diligence and reporting requirements.
