Do you need a whistleblowing channel, and how much of one?
Answer 10 short questions about your organisation. You get an honest answer, also when the answer is that you need nothing more than a written routine.
Four possible answers
1The legal minimum
2A secure channel
3An outside receiver
4Investigation support
As you answer, you see where you land. General information, not legal advice.
Your result
Made with Report Securely's whistleblowing test · Do you need a whistleblowing channel, and how much of one?
/100Need
1The legal minimum
2A secure channel
3An outside receiver
4Investigation support
No
The legal minimum is enough for you.
You need a written routine and one clear way to report. The law does not ask for a particular channel: a named person, an email address or a simple form can serve, as long as the routine says how reports are received, handled and followed up. Use our routine builder, name an impartial receiver, and take this test again when you grow.
You employ fewer than five people, so the law requires a written routine only if conditions in your organisation call for it. Your people still have the right to report, and a one-page routine takes an hour. If reports would reach you, the owner, name a second route in it for reports about you, such as the safety representative or a lawyer.
Basis: The routine must be written and contain an encouragement to report, the procedure for reporting, and the procedure for receipt, handling and follow-up. aml § 2 A-6 (1), (4)
Yes
A secure channel.
A shared mailbox works until the first anonymous report you cannot answer, or the first report about the person who reads the mailbox. A secure channel keeps Reports out of email, lets you write back to an anonymous Reporter, and shows that every Report was followed up within reasonable time. Report Securely does this under your own brand, stores no IP address or device data about Reporters, and keeps every Case's deadlines and log in one place.
Reports in your organisation would reach someone close to the people they concern. Let Kvale, our law firm partner in Norway, receive every Report first. A Kvale lawyer reads it, decides whether it is whistleblowing under the law, and gives you a signed initial assessment. You receive the Report with the assessment, and your people know the first reader is independent of you.
You are likely to receive serious reports and have nobody who can investigate them impartially. Let Kvale receive and assess every Report, and run the investigation when one is needed. The mandate, evidence, the notice to the person concerned and the final report are recorded on the Case, with dates. The interviews themselves take place outside the system.
