The modern slavery reporting platform used across the water utilities sector
The modern slavery reporting platform used across the water utilities sector
Manage complex supply chains, streamline supplier due diligence, and collaborate with industry peers through a shared platform built for the sector.
Trusted by organisations across the water utilities sector
Modern slavery reporting is becoming more complex across property and construction supply chains
Long, multi-tier supply chains and growing regulatory expectations are placing increasing pressure on procurement, ESG and legal teams.
Organisations must collect reliable supplier disclosures and assess risks across subcontracting and labour engagement.
They must also produce clear reporting for regulators and stakeholders.
No organisation can solve these challenges alone.
Why the Water Utilities platform exists
Shared risks require shared solutions
Infrastructure, engineering and operational supply chains are long, layered and globally dispersed. Labour hire, contracting and global sourcing create complex modern slavery risks.
Water Utilities Organisations
The sector now works together through the platform to:
- Use one shared Modern Slavery Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) to reduce duplication
- Lift capability across the industry through shared learning and regular collaboration opportunities
- Deliver stronger evidence for internal and external reporting with consistently better supplier disclosures
Sector impact
Industry collaboration delivering measurable impact
Supplier profiles onboarded
Increase in suppliers onboarded during 2025
Water utilities participating
How the Water Utilities platform works
Collect, assess, and report on modern slavery risk through one connected platform built for compliance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Establish your baseline
Upload your supplier list to instantly generate country and industry-based inherent risk ratings, giving you a clear baseline of modern slavery risk across your supply chain before deeper assessments begin.
Ratings informed by trusted data sources including:
- Global Slavery Index
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Global Peace Index
- Social Progress Index
Engage suppliers with the shared SAQ
Assess modern slavery risk across key supplier practices:
- Organisational context, including structure, ownership and geographic footprint
- Governance and controls, including reporting, policies, training and accountability
- Worker protections, including grievance mechanisms and remediation
- Operations and employment practices, including labour hire, recruitment and migrant workers
- Supply chain visibility and sourcing, including higher-risk countries, goods and services and onboarding practices
- Identification and management of modern slavery risks and incidents
Suppliers only see questions relevant to them thanks to conditional logic.
Report & Improve
Automatically score SAQ responses to assess residual supplier, human rights, and ESG risk using configurable models. Review results alongside inherent country and industry risk and external intelligence to prioritise high-risk suppliers.
Interactive dashboards give procurement, risk, and leadership teams shared visibility to prioritise action and track improvement across their supply chains.
Bring together internal ESG and supplier data - including spend, risk ratings, and assessments - in one secure platform. Integrate trusted intelligence sources such as Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, and Sedex.
Move beyond reactive reporting to strengthen governance, improve supplier accountability, and embed ESG performance in executive decision-making.
When organisations act independently across the sector
These issues can arise:
- Reporting becomes repetitive and low value
- Risk scoring varies widely
- Duplication becomes entrenched
- Suppliers receive multiple, inconsistent requests
- Effort increases without better outcomes
A shared, sector-wide platform helps reduce duplication, improve consistency, and strengthen modern slavery risk reporting.
Collaboration advantage
A sector-wide working group that actually works
The Water Utilities collaboration is an active modern slavery forum operating across Australia, supported by expert facilitation from Robin Mellon, CEO of Better Sydney.
The collaboration includes:
- Monthly cross-industry meetings, with guest speakers from government, civil society and industry
- Shared analysis of aggregated supplier insights and trends
- More than 100 learning resources circulated each year
- Thousands of supplier interactions with embedded learning
- Continuous refinement of the shared SAQ to reflect the evolving market
This collaboration keeps the platform aligned to real supply chain challenges and legislative expectations.
Informed 365 launched the platform with the Water Services Association of Australia in 2023.
Leading water utilities worked together establish a shared industry approach to modern slavery.
Designed for organisations across the water utilities sector, including:
- Urban water utilities
- Water authorities
- Bulk water providers
- Infrastructure operators
- And more
Platform impact
Visible uplift across the sector:
- Thousands of suppliers reusing their SAQ each year
- Millions of data points mapped across governance, labour and supply chain controls
- Higher supplier completion rates, with more consistent reporting across the property & construction sector
- Measure how many of your suppliers access learning resources and lock in continuous learning to tackle modern slavery
See the platform in action
See how your organisation can streamline reporting, strengthen due diligence, and participate in industry collaboration.
