Training on responsible supply chain

Training for suppliers

The Company focuses on raising its suppliers’ awareness of sustainable development and the responsible supply chain. As part of supplier relationship management, the Company pays special attention to working meetings with suppliers’ managers and employees to clarify Nornickel’s responsible supply chain standards and requirements, as well as to explain the mineral supply chain due diligence process and the sustainability survey of suppliers of goods, works, and services.

Personnel training

In 2024, the Company launched a corporate training programme focused on Nornickel’s sustainable development, which introduces key concepts of sustainability. The course also explains why Nornickel places particular emphasis on environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance transparency and outlines the projects being implemented to support sustainable development. In 2024, over 17 thousand Nornickel employees were trained under the programme.

In addition to this educational initiative, during the reporting period, an extended online training course on responsible supply chain was developed and launched on the Nornickel Academy internal educational platform. The course covers various aspects of responsible supplier conduct, helps participants gain a deeper understanding of approaches and best practices for building responsible supply chains, and introduces internal documents and processes related to the responsible sourcing of minerals, goods, works, and services at Nornickel.

In 2024, Nornickel employees directly involved in conducting due diligence on mineral suppliers and assessing the sustainability performance of suppliers of goods, works, and services completed the responsible supply chain training course.

The year‑on‑year increase in the number of trained employees and total training hours in 2024 was driven by the launch of a sustainability training course, which was completed by over 17 thousand employees.

Received training in responsible supply chain, excluding those who completed the sustainability course
> 600 people

The total number of training hours on responsible supply chain amounted to
> 1.8 thousand

In 2025, the Company plans to engage a wider range of participants in responsible supply chain trainings.

Nornickel employees responsible for the implementation and oversight of responsible supply chain management procedures also regularly attend in‑depth trainings on responsible supply chain. In 2024, Nornickel conducted a total of 15 trainings on responsible supply chain for managers and employees of entities at the Trans‑Baikal Division and the Polar Division’s Norilsk and Kola sites The trainings also covered employees of internal mineral suppliers that are part of the Group. .