"Speak Up Culture": can we move past dated "hotlines" and tacky posters?

Welcome back to Untangled, the podcast that takes the complex world of compliance and simplifies it.

The topic for today chat is "speak up culture" - probably the most forgotten element that has largely been about checking a regulatory box for years.  When ‘speak up’ programs were first implemented, the most popular method of capturing incident reports from employees was a literal telephone hotline, and many companies still utilize that (one may argue archaic) terminology and philosophy. 

So the question I would pose to my contributors today - what's your best tip to helping build a true "speak up" culture?

This Episode host:

• Andriy Kirmach – enjoys building compliance programmes from the ground up as well as structuring and restructuring compliance frameworks, teams and business processes.  Andriy brings 7 years of legal consulting expertise and further 8 years of in-house compliance experience with a multinational pharmaceutical company. His LinkedIn profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriy-kirmach-06b7652/

and Contributors:

• Stephanie Wingrove – passionate about creating compliance programmes that centre on ethical values, empowerment and accountability.  Stephanie has over twenty years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in R&D, QA and Compliance & Ethics.  Her LinkedIn profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-wingrove-222a448/
• Alex Davison – Uses a human approach to build a culture of ethics and compliance within his business teams and is on the hunt for the ‘universality’ of compliance disciplines. Alex has over 15 years of experience working in compliance roles throughout the Pharmaceutical value chain in R&D, Manufacturing and the Commercial business. His LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-davison-54529134/
• James (Jim) Swift – curious by nature, Jim enjoys solving problems and identifying opportunities for improvement to compliance programs and organisational culture. Jim has over 15 years' experience leading investigations and, more recently, compliance monitoring, analytics and risk management programs.  His LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-swift-95632150/