Rio Tinto : Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking Statement 2020

Respecting Human Rights

Our Statement

on Modern Slavery 2020

Contents

Chief Executive Message	2
1. Our Approach	3
2. Our Structure, Business and Supply Chains	4
3. Our Policies and Governance	8
4. Identifying our Modern Slavery Risks	10
5. Our Due Diligence and Remediation Processes	13
6. Our Training and Capacity Building	18
7. Our Multi-stakeholder Collaboration and Engagement	20
8. Assessing our Effectiveness	21
9. Consultation Across our Business	23
10. Looking Ahead	25
Appendix 1: How We Are Addressing the UK and	26
Australian Reporting Criteria
Appendix 2: Our Reporting Entities	27

Cover image:

Tiwai operations at NZAS

(New Zealand's Aluminium Smelter)

Inside cover image:

Environment team member at the Iron Ore

Company of Canada in Labrador City

About This Statement

This Statement has been prepared by the Rio Tinto Group to meet the requirements of the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (Australian MSA) and the United Kingdom's Modern Slavery Act 2015 (UK MSA). It covers the period 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 for the Australian MSA and UK MSA reporting entities identified in Appendix 2 and their owned and controlled entities, as well as our managed joint venture operations or assets. This Statement does not apply to non-managed joint ventures, other than Energy Resources of Australia Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited (both of which are reporting under this Statement), although we have highlighted our work to identify over-arching risks and set expectations for alignment by our non-managed joint venture partners with our core standards.

The Rio Tinto Group consists of Rio Tinto plc (registered in England and Wales as company number 719885 under the United Kingdom's Companies Act 2006 and listed on the London Stock Exchange), and Rio Tinto Limited (registered in Australia as ABN 96 004 458 404 under the Australian Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange) and their owned and controlled entities.

Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited operate together under a dual listed structure and are referred to in this report as Rio Tinto. The words "we", "us", "our" and "ourselves" are used to refer to the companies of the Rio Tinto Group in general.

In this Statement, the term "suppliers" includes suppliers of goods and services. It does not include Category 1 contractors1 but does include the labour hire companies that hire them. The Australian MSA talks about reporting on modern slavery risks in a reporting entity's operations and supply chains. We use "business" in place of "operations" as for us, the term "operations" has a specific meaning to describe operating mines, smelters and refineries.

This Statement has been drafted by our internal Human Rights specialists from our Communities and Social Performance Area of Excellence, with contributions from a wide range of functions, including External Affairs, Communications, Ethics & Compliance, Group Security, Human Resources, Investor Relations, Legal and Commercial (including Marine, Procurement and Logistics). We also obtained third-party feedback, including from three civil society organisations and investor representatives. Several reporting entities and other owned and controlled entities also provided valuable feedback.

This Statement was approved on 4 May 2021 by the combined Rio Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto plc Board on behalf of all reporting entities in the Rio Tinto Group. The Statement in its entirety has been signed by the Chief Executive of Rio Tinto (page 2).

This year's Statement is our first under the Australian MSA and fifth under the UK MSA. Appendix 1 explains how we have addressed the reporting criteria

of both these Acts.

This Statement has not been externally assured but has been drafted using an internal verification process. We welcome feedback at [e-mail].

1. Category 1 contractors are individuals working on temporary contracts within existing operations.

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Chief Executive Message

Together with key stakeholders, including governments and civil society, companies like ours have an important role to play in combatting modern slavery. At Rio Tinto, we consider doing so to be not only a reflection of our legal obligations and external commitments to core international standards, but also of our values. As such, this, our 2020 Statement on Modern Slavery, highlights the concrete steps we are taking to identify and address modern slavery risks throughout our global business and supply chains.

I am personally committed - as is our leadership team - to strengthening our environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance - this includes continually evolving our approach to managing human rights risks, including modern slavery. We are committed to meaningfully implementing international business and human rights standards, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

One key way we are strengthening our modern slavery mitigation is by working with our business partners to build their capacity to manage modern slavery and other labour exploitation risks. For example, we are actively collaborating across the shipping value chain to facilitate crew changes in safe locations to assist seafarers stranded on vessels and who may be at risk of modern slavery or other forms of labour exploitation during COVID-19.

We also continue to work to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our employees, contractors and business partners as the pandemic continues. As we manage the ongoing disruptions to global supply chains caused by COVID-19, we recognise that strong due diligence regarding human rights and other business integrity issues is more important than ever. During 2020, we conducted more than 4,000 due diligence reviews on third parties. We also separately evaluated our overarching labour rights risk profile across more than 20,000 suppliers.

While not an issue of modern slavery, the destruction of the Juukan rock shelters in May 2020 represented a tragic failure of our management of human rights. We have worked intensively to learn the lessons from Juukan and to apply them to all aspects of communities and social performance and broader human rights work.

In 2021, we will refresh our human rights policy, which will include an update of our human rights control management framework. Implementation of this policy and framework will include building our own capacity, including among our frontline teams, to identify, prevent and address any involvement in human rights harm, including modern slavery, through our own activities and business relationships.

I am pleased to present our 2020 Statement on Modern Slavery. We welcome your feedback.

Jakob Stausholm

Chief Executive

May 2021

This Statement was approved by the Boards of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited on 4 May 2021.

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Our Approach

1 Our Approach

Genuinely committing to address modern slavery requires concrete action, continual improvement and collaboration. We believe it starts with everyday actions.

Respecting human rights, including the right to freedom from slavery, is central to our values and to the way we work, wherever we work. It is also a foundational element of the

three pillars of our sustainability strategy (see more at riotinto.com).

The governance of our human rights-related policies is overseen by the Sustainability Committee of the Board of Directors,

as are policies to pre-screen suppliers and provide human rights training to key employees.

What is modern slavery?

The Australian MSA defines modern slavery to include slavery, servitude, forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, trafficking in persons, deceptive recruiting for labour or services and the worst forms of child labour. The UK uses a similar definition. This Statement uses the Australian MSA definition.

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