Intro Power Inclusive Future For All FY23 Purpose Report | 16 Looking Ahead A human-centered approach to the product lifecycle Cisco considers potential human rights impacts at every stage of our value chain. We assess e昀昀ects on stakeholders, including vulnerable workers in our supply chain, users of our products and solutions, and other impacted populations. Here’s how: RESPONSIBLE MINERAL COMPONENT AND PRODUCT PRODUCT DESIGN PRODUCT-LEVEL DILIGENCE PRODUCT END-OF-LIFE SOURCING MANUFACTURING Human rights impact assessments Cisco strives to identify and prevent We design products to allow for We collaborate with supply chain Supply chain workers in manufacturing and Responsible AI impact human rights harms associated with self-service data wiping, helping partners to promote responsible facilities face a variety of potential assessments help us design and the use of our technology. As part to ensure a right to privacy. Cisco sourcing of minerals and to identify risks, including forced labor, safety build our products. We consider of this e昀昀ort, Cisco complies with works with a number of e-scrap and prevent sourcing from mines hazards, and chemical exposure. We the needs of vulnerable users, human rights driven trade controls recyclers and other partners linked to armed con昀氀ict or human work across our global supply chain intended and unintended uses and conducts human rights due who disassemble our equipment, rights violations. to identify and mitigate these risks. of our products, and unique use diligence on transactions that present and we hold those partners Workers can leverage Cisco’s EthicsLine cases to address potential risks. heightened potential human rights accountable to our Supplier Code as a grievance mechanism to share risks, considering product capabilities, of Conduct. concerns with Cisco if they are unable purposes, and users. to resolve issues with employers.