p.4: "Despite the challenges with COVID-19, in 2022 across 136 suppliers, 270 third-party RBA VAP and Intel-led audits were conducted in facilities within our supply chain using the current RBA VAP Operations Manual to verify compliance to the RBA Code. The vast majority were conducted on-site. This is a 72% increase from 2021 and reflects a catch-up period despite COVID-19 restrictions. This represented approximately 33% of our critical suppliers."

p.4: "Since 2014, our ongoing assessments and efforts to reach deeper into the supply chain have positively affected almost 49,000 workers in our global supply chain, including our suppliers (includes first-tier and lower-tier suppliers) having returned $26 million in fees to more than 24,000 their workers. Fees returned typically equate to approximately three to five months of base pay, depending on location and situation."

p.4: "We’ve continued our multi-year innovative project for supplier accountability, reaching over 166 lower-tier suppliers. We have required that approximately 50 of our suppliers work with at least three of their own major suppliers to assess and address their risks of forced and bonded labor. Our work has resulted in numerous positive changes made by lower-tier suppliers to their staffing and recruiting policies and closer engagement and expectation setting with their recruiting agents. As we now conclude this specific effort, one measure of impact is the return of $100 thousand in fees to their foreign workers in 2022 contributing to a total of $1.3 million since the start of our program in 2018."

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"Each year we also deliver our expectations of combating slavery and human trafficking risks in one or more webinars. In mid-2022, we worked with HP Enterprise, HP Inc., Seagate, and Western Digital to provide virtual training and workshop sessions to over 3 00 participants from our respective supply chains. Experts from Verite led the sessions with RBA presenting on audit protocol changes. We also sent 10 supplier representatives to a unique in person training on the 11 ILO Indicators of Forced Labor in December led by WorkBetter Innovations."