Governance & ethics

Our Code of Conduct brings our core principles to life, it reminds us why they are important and about the way we work.

We maintain a Hunting wide ABC programme, that includes components designed to prevent or detect potential breaches. We deliver training to help our employees understand the standards of behaviour acceptable at Hunting.

However, our ambitions do not stop there. We aim to have a positive influence across our supply chain, raising the bar on matters such as Human Rights and ABC, and issue key ethics documents, such as our Code of Conduct, to our customers and (known) suppliers. We want to create an environment where employees not only live by our principles, but also are vigilant in identifying potential concerns, and are confident about speaking up in such situations.

The independent whistleblowing hotline “Speak Up”, provided by Safecall, provides a safe and confidential method for employees to raise concerns. Concerns can also be raised in confidence by contacting the Chairman or Senior Independent Director.

Our Code of Conduct contains policies, guidelines and instructions governing the conduct of all Hunting employees, and partners in the course of our business.

Policies such as Ethical Employment & Trading and Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking Transparency Statement, Payments to Governments and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (“ABC”) assist us all in understanding our legal and ethical responsibilities.

This includes our commitments to fair, ethical and transparent competition, business integrity and full compliance with all applicable statutory, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements.

All businesses, employees, business and trading partners (“partners”) of Hunting are expected to operate in line with these principles. Our principles are core at every interaction we have, and in how we do business.

Each group company has established, and enforces, compliance procedures. The Ethics and Compliance department advises on best practice to ensure compliance.

Hunting respects the privacy of all individuals and recognise that the respective personal data belongs to that individual. It is our responsibility to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and services and the personal data we process within them.

As part of Hunting’s IT governance, employees are empowered to recognise common cyber threats by participating in a mandatory cyber security awareness training programme. Hunting has also given priority to improving collaborative working processes, ensuring employees can effortlessly share information in a safe and secure manner, whilst working with real-time information.

All incidents are reported, recorded, and reviewed and used to improve company policies, procedures and practices with regards to overall enterprise risk management, including any mission critical risks related to privacy, data integrity and cybersecurity. Utilising the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (“NIST CSF”) v1.1, we have identified controls to achieve the specific outcomes that are important to Hunting. Newly identified compliance requirements are mapped to our existing controls within NIST CSF.

Due to the evolving threat landscape, Hunting has pivoted and focused on the shifting attack Vector(s), whilst maintaining compliance and ensuring data privacy and integrity. Hunting utilises enterprise grade near real-time replication and backup strategies between various datacentres. This ensures even with a critical failure we can failover or recover operational capabilities to an entirely different datacentre within minutes.

Our commitment to the delivery of innovative, high-quality, and reliable products is of material importance to the achievement of this, and this is reflected in our Quality Policy and our Sustainability Framework.

Hunting’s total commitment to Quality is shown through operational excellence, comprehensive Quality Management System (“QMS”) supported by strong management oversight. Operational excellence is a key driver of our engagement and relationship with customers.

Quality assurance for each component manufactured is a key differentiator in our drive to be an industry-leading provider of critical components and measurement tools.