Title: Diamond Best Practice Principles (BPP)
1Welcome to the
Diamond Best Practice Principles (BPP) Training
2Agenda
1) What is it?
2) Why is it?
3) Whats in it for SunDiamond?
4) What are the themes?
5) What is asked from you?
6) Presentations?
- Business Policy
- Health Safety
- Kimberley Process and AML
- Disclosure
3What is it?
- A Code, a set of rules that aim at establishing a
standard within the diamond industry on general
themes like - Business Responsibility
- Social Responsability
- Environmental Responsability
- The BPP is edicted by the Diamond Trading Company
(DTC) as a formal part of the Supplier of Choice
Contract
3) The BPP is similar to auto-regulations in
other sectors (e.g. BRC)
4Why is it?
- It is a formal obligation for every DTC
Sightholder under the Supplier of Choice contract
to comply to the BPP
2) Stakeholders of the Diamond Industry
expressed a demand for Responsible Practices and
auto-regulations
3) The Industry must be able to indicate its
genuine efforts to eradicate previous existing
practices that tarnished its reputation
5Whats in it for SunDiamond?
- Obligations
- Compliance to the BPP
- Training and information
- Audit internal/external
- Subcontractors and clients
- Opportunities
- Pioneering in Good Business Practices
- Accreditation of PurelyNaturalDiamond
- Differentiation by marketing exploitation
6Whats in it for SunDiamond?
- 3) Expectations
- Increase Consumer Confidence
- Implement Best Business Practices
- Commitment from every actor of the Diamond
Industry
- Consequences
- SunDiamond Business Policy
- Certification of Vietnam Factories ISO 9000,
OHSAS 18000, SA 8000 - Local training on BPP
- PurelyNaturalDiamond
7Themes?
- 1) Business Responsabilities
- Ethical standards gt Business Policy
- Anti Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing gt
PPT presentation - Kimberley Process gt PPT presentation
- Disclosure gt PPT presentation
- Pipeline Management
8Themes?
- 2) Social Responsabilities
- Employees gt Business Policy
- Health and Safety gt PPT presentation
- Diversity gt Business Policy
- Non-discrimination gt Business Policy
- Child Labour gt Business Policy
- Forced Labour gt Business Policy
- Human Rights gt Business Policy
- Community gt Business Policy
3) Environmental Responsabilities gt Business
Policy
9What is asked from you?
- Listen carefully
- Ask questions
- Read the Business Policy
- Remember the essentials
- Be able to answer if questionned on any matter of
the BPP
10The SunDiamond Business Policy
11In general the SunDiamond Group of
Companies Adheres to
- UN Global Compact (10 principles)
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The International Labour Organisation
- The United Nations Environment Programme
- The United Nations Development Programme
- The United Nations Industrial Development
Organisation
12In general the SunDiamond Group of Companies Is
committed to
- The Kimberley Process
- BPP
- FATF (40 recommendations)
- USA PATRIOT ACT
- The Canadian Diamond Code of Conduct
- The JA Code of Ethics and Standards of
Professional Conduct, the JA Supplier Code of
Conduct - CIBJO and its many initiatives
13Business Policy
- Specific themes
- Integrity
- People in the workplace
- Health and Safety
- Environment and Society
- Observance of the Business Policy
- Compliance Officer/ Chief Compliance Officer
Read the BP (15 minutes) Sign it!
14Health and Safety
15Health Safety
Sources
- National Legislations
- SunDiamond Business Policy
- Rules and Regulations
- BPP
16Health Safety
The Company Safety Manager
- Name
- How to contact him
- He will be responsible to keep the RECORDS of
accidents, diseases, absentee - Keep file on all accidents in order to learn and
avoid them in the future
17Health Safety
YOUR CONDITION
18Health Safety
- Are you dizzy ?
- Light headed?
- Chilled and sweating?
- Shortness of breath ?
- Pain in center of chest spreading to neck,
shoulder or arms? - Something gets caught in your throat
- Sudden weakness/numbness of the face
- Loss of speech / trouble talking or understanding
speech - Sudden severe headache
- Are you diabetic? eating or checking you blood
sugar? - Are you allergic to certain things / been stung
by a bee before?
Get help as quickly as possible Be aware of your
own condition
19Health Safety
- Inform of your condition ahead of time and can
prepare - Taking medications? - keep a list in your pocket
- Let us know any special needs for your condition
- Update information and the emergency contact.
Time is critical - do what you can before the
unexpected happens
20Inform Immediately
Health Safety
- Call .. In case of emergency
- If you arent needed - stay out of the way
- Keep others away - keep area clear
- Help direct emergency personnel
- Respect the privacy of others
21Health Safety
Use of alcohol drugs or tobacco is prohibited in
SunDiamond workplaces SunDiamond does not allow
working under influence of any illegal substance,
drug or alcohol Alcohol-Drugs-Tobacco
22Health Safety
FIRE
23Health Safety
The Fire Triangle
Fire Safety, at its most basic, is based upon the
principle of keeping fuel sources and ignition
sources separate.
24Health Safety
Fuel Classifications
Class A Wood, paper, cloth, trash,
plasticssolids that are not metals. Class B
Flammable liquidsgasoline, oil, grease, acetone.
Includes flammable gases. Class C
Electricalenergized electrical equipment. As
long as its plugged in. Class D
Metalspotassium, sodium, aluminum, magnesium.
Requires Metal-X, foam, and other special
extinguishing agents.
25Health Safety
Fuel Classifications
Most fire extinguishers will have a pictograph
label telling you which types of fire the
extinguisher is designed to fight. For example, a
simple water extinguisher might have a label like
this
which means it should only be used on Class A
fires.
26Health Safety
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Its easy to remember how to use a fire
extinguisher if you remember the acronym PASS
27Health Safety
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Pull the pin
This will allow you to discharge the extinguisher
28Health Safety
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Aim at the base of the fire
Hit the fuel! If you aim at the flames...
the extinguishing agent will fly right through
and do no good.
29Health Safety
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Squeeze the top handle
This depresses a button that releases the
pressurized extinguishing agent.
30Health Safety
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Sweep from side to side
.. until the fire is completely out.
Start using the extinguisher from a safe distance
away, then slowly move forward.
Once the fire is out, keep an eye on the area in
case it re-ignites.
31Health Safety
Rules for Fighting Fires
Fires can be very dangerous and you should always
be certain that you will not endanger yourself or
others when attempting to put out a fire. For
this reason, when a fire is discovered
- Assist any person in immediate danger to safety,
if it can be accomplished without risk to
yourself. - Call 911 or activate the building fire alarm.
The fire alarm will notify the fire department
and other building occupants and shut off the air
handling system to prevent the spread of smoke.
If the fire is small (and Only after having done
these 2 things), you may attempt to use an
extinguisher to put it out. However . . . .
32Health Safety
Rules for Fighting Fires
. . . before deciding to fight the fire, keep
these things in mind
- Know what is burning. If you dont know whats
burning, you wont know what kind of extinguisher
to use. - Even if you have an ABC fire extinguisher, there
may be something in the fire that is going to
explode or produce toxic fumes.
Chances are you will know whats burning, or at
least have a pretty good idea, but if you dont,
let the fire department handle it.
33Health Safety
Rules for Fighting Fires
Do not fight the fire if
- You dont have adequate or appropriate equipment.
If you dont have the correct type or large
enough extinguisher, it is best not to try
fighting the fire. - You might inhale toxic smoke. When synthetic
materials such as the nylon in carpeting or foam
padding in a sofa burn, they can produce hydrogen
cyanide, acrolein, and ammonia in addition to
carbon monoxide. These gases can be fatal in
very small amounts. - Your instincts tell you not to. If you are
uncomfortable with the situation for any reason,
just let the fire department do their job.
34Health Safety
Rules for Fighting Fires
The final rule is to always position yourself
with an exit or means of escape at your back
before you attempt to use an extinguisher to put
out a fire.
In case the extinguisher malfunctions, or
something unexpected happens, you need to be able
to get out quickly. You dont want to become
trapped.
35Health Safety
Rules for Fighting Fires
- Remember to keep an exit to your back
- Only fight a fire in the incipient stage
36Health Safety
Rules for Fighting Fires
NEVER fight a fire if any of the following apply
- Dont have the proper extinguisher or equipment
- Fire has spread beyond its point of origin
- Your instincts tell you GET OUT
37Health Safety
Fundamentals of Electrical Hazards
- To flow electricity must have a complete path.
- Electricity flows through conductors water,
metal, the human body - Insulators are non-conductors
- The human body is a conductor.
38Health Safety
Dos and Don'ts
- Do plug power equipment into wall receptacles
with power switches in the Off position. - Do unplug electrical equipment by grasping the
plug and pulling. Do not pull or jerk the cord to
unplug the equipment. - Do not drape power cords over hot pipes,
radiators or sharp objects. - Do check the receptacle for missing or damaged
parts. - Do not plug equipment into defective receptacles.
- Do check for frayed, cracked, or exposed wiring
on equipment cords.
39Health Safety
Dos and Don'ts
- Employees should know the location of electrical
circuit breaker panels that control equipment and
lighting in their respective areas. Circuits and
equipment disconnects must be identified. - Temporary or permanent storage of any materials
must not be allowed within 3 feet of any
electrical panel or electrical equipment. - Any electrical equipment causing shocks or with
high leakage potential must be tagged with a
Danger tag or equivalent.
40Health Safety
Myths and Misconceptions
- Electricity takes the path of least resistance.
- Electricity wants to go to ground.
- If an electric tools falls into a sink or tub of
water, the item will short out. - AC reverse polarity is not hazardous.
- It takes high voltage to kill 120 volts is not
dangerous. - Double insulated power tools are doubly safe and
can be used in wet and damp locations.
41Health Safety
Fire Safety - On-the-Job
- Do not block fire extinguishers with equipment
- Do not block fire emergency exits and escape
routes - Utilize those with electrical expertise/installati
ons/assistance - Do not overload outlets - use a track plug
- Practice good housekeeping techniques in the work
area - Inspect wires for possible damage and replace as
needed
42Health Safety
Evacuation Planning
- Make sure that you know the escape routes .
- know how to notify the fire department, and when
to call for help. - Never open doors that are hot to the touch.
- Remember to stop, drop to the ground and roll if
their clothes catch fire. - Never re-enter a burning building
- Your life is more precious than the diamonds ...
43Health Safety
Machine Guarding
44Health Safety
Machine Guarding
Many fatalities have resulted from employees
getting caught in rotating shafts such as well
boring drills lathes. Fixed guards
- A permanent part of the machine
- Not dependent on any other part to perform the
function - Usually made of sheet metal, screen, bars or
other material which will withstand the
anticipated impact - Generally considered the preferred type of guard.
- Simple and durable
45Health Safety
Machine Guarding
This shows a pulley system which has correct
guards to keep fingers and tools away from pinch
points.
46Health Safety
Machine Guarding
- Robots can be deadly.
- Establish a system to keep humans from getting
into the robots work area. - Maintenance workers must use a lockout system.
47Health Safety
What Is Workplace Violence?
- Workplace violence
- Any act of physical violence
- overt aggression
- Homicide, physical and sexual assault
- Workplace aggression emotional toll
- Expressions of hostility
- Gestures, facial expressions and verbal assaults
- Threats of physical violence
- Harassment, intimidation, bullying
- Ostracism/shunning
- Obstructionism
- Passive/aggressive behaviors that impede job
performance or achievement of organizational
objectives
48Health Safety
Behavior Warning Signs of Potential Violence and
Their Probability of Occurrence (cont)
- Evidence of drug and/or alcohol dependence
- Evidence of depression and withdrawal
- A pattern of pathological blaming
- Evidence of impaired neurological functioning
- An elevated frustration level
- An interest/fascination in weapons
- Evidence of a personality disorder
49Health Safety
Behavior Warning Signs of Potential Violence and
Their Probability of Occurrence (cont)
- Unexplained increase in absenteeism
- Noticeable decrease in attention to appearance
and personal hygiene - Has a plan to solve all problems
- Resistance and over reaction to changes in
policies or procedures - repeated violations of the organizations
policies
50Health Safety
Preventing Workplace Violence (cont)
- Administrative/Organizational
- Programs
- Workplace Violence Plan
- Threat Assessment Team
- EAP
- Policies
- Harassment
- Workplace violence
- SOPs
51Health Safety
Health Issues
- Eating area should be kept clean
- Toilets clean and segregated
- Drinking water
- Noise level
- Environnemental awareness
- Harassement ...
52Health Safety
The point is.
- TAKE THE EFFORT
- TAKE THE TIME
- DO WHAT IS RIGHT!
- CORRECT SITUATIONS ON-THE-SPOT to prevent a
worse situation.
53Health Safety
You are IN CONTROL
- If you SEE SOMETHING that is NOT RIGHT
- REPORT IT IMMEDIATELY!
- DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
- TELL SOMEONE (ANYONE!)
- Choose to be PRO-ACTIVE!
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55The Kimberley Process and Anti Money Laundering
56Kimberley Process and AML
What is a Conflict Diamond?
Rough Diamonds used by rebel movements or their
allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining
legitimate governments, as described in relevant
United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
resolutions insofar as they remain in effect, or
in other similar UNSC resolutions which may be
adopted in the future and as understood and
recognised in United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA) resolution 55/56, or in other similar UNGA
resolutions which may be adopted in the future.
57Kimberley Process and AML
What is the Solution?
- The Kimberley Process rough diamond sector
international regulation supervised by the UN. - Only Rough Diamonds
- Only when movement from country to country
(Import-Export) KP Certificate from exporting
country authorized by UN - Reconciliation by Company Auditor
- Record keeping for 5 years
- Statement (WDC) on invoice when internal movement
The diamonds herein invoiced have been purchased
from legitimate sources not involved in funding
conflict and in compliance with United Nations
Resolutions. The undersigned hereby guarantees
that these diamonds are conflict free, based on
personal knowledge and/or written guarantees
provided by the supplier of these diamonds.
58Kimberley Process and AML
What is Money Laundering?
- Any type of conscious involvement with the
transfer, holding, hiding, using, etc of monies
and assets with an illegal origin. Also if one
were reasonably aware of someone being in any way
related to transactions with monies or assets
with an illegal origin, one would already be
involved in money laundering activities. - The origin of money or assets is illegal when
these originate from a series of crimes mentioned
by name, such as terrorism or terrorism
financing, organized crime, illegal drug traffic,
exploitation of prostitution serious and
organized tax fraud, for which extreme
complicated mechanisms or procedures of
international size are used swindle, abuse of
trust, abuse of corporate assets, a hijacking, a
theft or extortion with violence or threat or a
crime connected with the state of bankruptcy.
59Kimberley Process and AML
What is the Solution?
- Financial Action Task Force 40 Recommendations
- Belgian Anti Money Laundering Law
- USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act
- FOR DIAMOND TRADERS
- Obligation to identify clients and notification
of suspicious transactions or facts - Prohibition for cash payments in excess of 10.000
60Kimberley Process and AML
What are the Obligations?
- Identification of clients
- KYC
- 10.000
- Keeping of records
- To draw a written report
- To train and sensitize employees
- To appoint a Money Laundering Responsible and to
set up a procedure for internal check-up (in
doubt always refer to him) - Duty to report to the Financial Cell
- Pledge of secrecy
- Immunity
61Kimberley Process and AML
Examples of AML suspicious activities?
- Transactions with non-registered diamond dealers.
Being non-registered indicates an irregular way
of doing business which always seems SUSPICIOUS. - Transactions that, without any specific reason,
are split up in various separate transactions. - Transactions of a large size that are executed in
small bank notes (but of course less than
10,000). - Transactions of a large size where the client has
not counted the bank notes up front or where
large amounts are offered in different
currencies handling cash in a sloppy way always
leads to suspicious situations as do cases where
fellow contractors offer a very complicated or
surprising way of payment.
62Kimberley Process and AML
Examples of AML suspicious activities?
- Transactions where, without any reason,
intermediaries are used. It can either be about
intermediaries who, without any plausible reason,
execute large transactions for a third party or
it is assumed that they are executed for a third
party, or it can be about individuals accompanied
by a third who supervises the transaction and
refuses to make his identity known. Such
practices with these kinds of puppets always lead
to a suspicious situation. - Transactions where pieces of dubious origin or
even fake identity cards are used or where
problems rise while identifying a client. - Transactions that are executed with or for the
account of post office box companies, usually
situated in tax havens are suspicious.
63Kimberley Process and AML
Examples of AML suspicious activities?
- Transactions which have no apparent economic
reason for being executed in your country. - Uncommon transactions in the light of the
client's common activities of which the
background and its goal are not being explained. - Transactions where the client behaves
suspiciously and shows little interest in the
charged selling margin or commissions, even
though it concerns large amounts.
64Disclosure
65Disclosure
What is Disclosure?
Only a natural diamond can be called and sold as
a Diamond.
- Natural the stone is of natural origin, not man
made, not synthetic, not a simulant. - Diamond a natural mineral consisting essentially
of pure carbon crystallised with a cubic
structure in the isometric system. Its hardness
in the Mohs scale is 10 its specific gravity is
approximately 3,52 it has a refractive index of
2,42 and it can be found in many colours.
66Disclosure
Why?
- To restore and build up Consumer Confidence.
- To combat Synthetics.
67Disclosure
General Rules
- ALL facts ALWAYS
- Regardless of effect on value
- No exception
- Verbal AND written on ALL documents in plain
English - always immediatly preceeding or succeeding the
description of the Diamond - Misuses of Terminology prohibition in ALL
circum-stances (Flawless, perfect, blue white,
properly cut, modern cut) - No mis-representation of weight
68Disclosure
Synthetics
- Definition any object or product that has been
either partially or wholly crystallised or
re-crystallised due to artificial human
intervention such that, with the exception of
being non-natural, the products meet the
requirements specified in the above mentioned
definition of diamond
- Rules
- 1-Always disclose as SYNTHETIC -MAN MADE-LAB
CREATED-ARTIFICIAL - 2-Never use misleading terms as CULTURED
- 3-Never use names of firms , manufacturers or
trademarks without the terms of point 1(e.g.
ACME DIAMONDS)
69Disclosure
Treated Diamonds
- Definition any process, treatment or enhancement
changing, interfering with and/or contaminating
the natural appearance or composition of a
diamond other than the historically accepted
practices of cutting and polishing. It includes
colour (and decolourisation) treatment, fracture
filling, laser and irradiation treatment and
coating.
- Rules
- 1-All treatments other than historically accepted
- 2-Colour (and decolourisation ) treatments,
Fracture filling, Laser, HTHP, Irradiation coating
70Disclosure
Treated Diamonds
3-Always Disclose all treatments , and their
effect on Diamond value the special care
requirements 4-Never disguise the term used
e.g. IMPROVED 5-Never use names of firms ,
manufacturers or trademarks alone with DIAMOND
(e.g. ACME DIAMONDS in stead of ACME DIAMOND
treated by HPHT)
71Disclosure
Diamond Simulants
- Definition any object or product used to imitate
diamond or some or all of its properties and
includes any material which does not meet the
requirements specified in the above mentioned
definition of diamond.
- Rules
- 1- Always disclose as the mineral (Zircon) or
compound (Cubic Zirconia) or as FAKE IMITATION or
SIMULANT Diamond - 2- Never use names of firms , manufacturers or
trademarks alone with DIAMOND(ACME DIAMONDS in
stead of ACME DIAMOND SIMULANT , SWISS DIAMOND)
72Disclosure
SunDiamond Efforts
- Business Policy
- Supply Chain Management
- Traceability Management Process is designed to
authenticate that the diamonds, which carry the
label PurelyNaturalDiamondTM, that are sold by
the SunDiamond Group of Companies are natural,
not treated, conflict free, legal and processed
in compliance with the strictest ethical codes of
the industry. - PurelyNaturalDiamond
73thanks you for your attention!