{"id":45987,"date":"2021-12-08T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whistlelink.com\/blog\/how-to-help-employees-understand-your-whistleblowing-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:29:28","slug":"how-to-help-employees-understand-your-whistleblowing-policy","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.whistlelink.com\/cs\/blog\/how-to-help-employees-understand-your-whistleblowing-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to help employees understand your whistleblowing policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Give employees more confidence to make a report by providing them with as much relevant information as possible about how your whistleblowing process works. Create a whistleblowing policy and guide them from what happens before they make a report all the way to what happens if the case goes to an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Help employees understand your policy on whistleblowing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is a lot you can tell your workforce when it comes to explaining how your whistleblowing policy works. There is also a lot that can be missed out. Either way could lead to a lack of understanding and consequently low levels of disclosures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providing clear and relevant details not only achieves a better understanding, it also gives people the confidence to make a report and put trust in your organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you start with communicating your policy, it also helps to explain the advantages of whistleblowing to employees, so they get a bigger picture of why it\u2019s important to disclose information, not only to the company but for society as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below we guide you on what\u2019s useful to communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provide details on how the policy works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Here are the top level items to include:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n