Building trust and ensuring staff feel happy and secure at work are key elements to motivating and retaining employees.

Here Joanna Lewis, MD of whistleblowing service Safecall, highlights how an effective whistleblowing policy helps promote employee confidence while minimising the risk of a corporate scandal or a tribunal.

High profile corporate scandals and a turbulent economy have meant employees are now looking for one thing more than ever - security.

With a rising emphasis on the importance of ethical business practices for staff, customers and the wider public, firms should be looking for ways to engender trust in their business.

Developing a culture of transparency; accountability and integrity is central to this. Your employees should feel empowered and safe to speak up against wrongdoing in the workplace.

This can be achieved by implementing an effective and impartial whistleblowing policy.

There are seven key factors to consider when creating a whistle blowing policy for your workplace:

1 . Impartiality

To instil the most confidence in your employees, your whistle blower policy should carry with it the assurance of impartiality. Whistleblowers should know that throughout the whistleblowing process, their disclosure will be treated fairly and with security.

The most cited reason for not coming forward with a disclosure is fear of repercussions. When the only avenues for making a protected disclosure are internal, employees may begin to question whether the...

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