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BHP Group

BHP Group is a multinational mining company founded in 1885 and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is both the largest mining company in the world and the largest company in Australia. BHP Group has 80,000 employees and operates in 90 locations across 6 countries. In 2022, it earned USD 65 billion in revenue from its mineral production, the majority of which came from copper, iron ore, and nickel.

Summary

BHP Group ranks 14th overall and 10th in the Extractives sector. Its best performance is on human rights practices. It has an opportunity to improve on embedding respect and human rights due diligence.

BHP Group is the only company in the benchmark to describe the process and frequency for reviewing its business strategy in relation to emerging risks and potential impacts on human rights. It is also one of three extractives companies that disclose how they monitor the implementation of agreed remedy in cases where they have caused or contributed to human rights impacts.

The company has an opportunity to be more transparent around the process and outcomes of its grievance mechanism, and to involve users in the design, performance and improvement of the mechanism. It also has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors the implementation of its human rights policies across its global operations.

Ranking position: #14 /110
Total score: 39.8 /100

Measurement theme	Score	Rank (0-110)
Governance and policy commitments	#1 4.4 /10	#19
Embedding respect and human rights due diligence	#1 11.1 /25	#24
Remedies and grievance mechanisms	#1 8.0 /20	#14
Performance: Practices	#1 11.8 /25	#9
Performance: Responses	#1 4.6 /20	#27

Sector
Extractives	#10

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