Independent and confidential whistleblowing hotlines are an effective management tool for businesses, acting as a safety valve and early warning system for potentially damaging issues such as employee fraud, bribery or corruption, questionable accounting procedures, gross breaches of ethical misconduct, health and safety or environmental legislation.

Compliance Lines can help senior management detect fraud and other illegal or unethical activity at an early stage, ensuring prompt action is taken and helping to prevent financial loss, damage to reputation and litigation. Employee fraud costs businesses billions of dollars per year globally; whistleblowing hotlines can significantly reduce fraud losses.

Control Risks has an established track record of providing global companies with confidential whistleblowing lines for their employees to report financial or ethical misconduct worldwide, through its Compliance Lines service.

Compliance Lines is:

• Simple to introduce
• Accessible 24 hours a day
• A guaranteed point of contact for employees worldwide
• Operated by highly experienced consultants
• Supported by a multilingual interpreting service  
• Independent and confidential
• Provided at a clearly defined cost
• Secured by specialist IT applications

How Compliance Lines work

• Each client receives a dedicated whistleblowing reporting line
• Employees worldwide contact Compliance Lines to report fraud, ethical misconduct or other illegal activity
• Employees can choose to remain anonymous
• Consultants respond to each call, using an interpreter where required, explain the service, question the employee fully and arrange a follow-up call
• Following the call, the consultant sends a sanitised report to the nominated client contact with a suggested course of action
• During the follow-up call, the employee is advised of the action taken within parameters agreed with the client

Compliance Lines represents a cost-effective way for businesses to:

• Comply with legislation
• Facilitate early detection of fraud and other problems throughout their global operations
• Reduce the risk of financial loss, damage to reputation and litigation