Compliance Perspectives

By Adam Turteltaub Sometimes you make a few technical changes to a compliance program  because a law or regulation has changed. Autoliv didn’t want to do that and just meet technical requirement of the EU Whistleblower Directive. They wanted to use it as an opportunity to assess what they were doing to encourage employee reporting, whether it was working, and to improve support for people speaking up. Erica Wikman, Vice President, Corporate Compliance, Autoliv and David Barr (LinkedIn), co-founder of Campbell Barr, tells us in this podcast that they shared a vision of moving away from just whistleblowing. Research showed it can have negative connotations.  In addition, whistleblowing tended to be interpreted narrowly, with tremendous variations by region. They also found a fear of either retaliation or that nothing would be done. So, the Autoliv compliance team began to think more broadly and encourage people not just to speak up when they saw a potential compliance issue but also when they saw something p