Comprehensive whistle blowing policy aids compliance with
relevant employment law, provides a first base risk
management scheme. This policy encourages employees to raise concerns about malpractice and helps to create an open and honest work ethic for your business.
About this document
Laws on making of disclosures concerning workplace activities are intended to protect employees who profess from being subject to any detrimental or unfair treatment as a result.
This comprehensive policy sets out the terms on which your policy encourages staff to speak up, ensuring their views are listened to. If implemented inline with the explanatory notes, a whistleblowing policy can also prove useful as a risk management strategy – that is, a way to spot potential pitfalls before they happen.
This policy aids compliance with your obligations under employment legislation. It sets out good, honest work ethics and guidance within relevant legislation and ensures that all employees know the steps they must take if they encounter malpractice. The document is addressed to your staff, so that compliance really happens. Of course, some explanation and education is advised.
Application
and features
Covers a wide range of issues from criminal offences to the protection of the environment, endangerment of health & safety of any individual and deliberate concealment;
Doubles as a whistleblowing policy to prevent malpractice by staff and also as a risk management policy in that it could help to prevent larger scale mischief from happening;
Provides both you and your employees with an easy reference as to raising concerns in the workplace;
Document and explanatory notes in plain English.
Contents
Company statement;
Explanation of whistleblowing;
Named people responsible for implementing the policy;
Application to whom;
When to use the policy;
Who to report to;
Actions to be taken when making a disclosure;
Investigation of disclosure;
Confidentiality;
Protection and support for whistleblowers;
Corrective action and compliance;
Monitoring and review of policy.
Word
Count (approximate):
Document: 2100
words
Explanatory notes:
1200
words
Draftsman
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