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A safe and healthy work environment for every employee and organization.
Our proactive external confidential advisors help you establish a safe and healthy work environment.
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Our proactive external confidential advisors help you establish a safe and healthy work environment.
We believe in a personalized approach. That is why you will always have access to two dedicated highly trained, registered confidential advisors (a Lead VP and a permanent replacement), who can work with you to create a safe work environment that will help you comply with the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and regulations regarding PSA and integrity policies. For this, we charge a fixed annual fee.
In addition, a flat hourly rate applies for consultations, information & prevention, modifications part PSA or Integrity Policy or advice. We apply a discount for SMEs or non-profit organizations. If you would like to use multiple confidants or have special needs, we can create a customized package.
External Confidential Advisor
Our External Confidential Advisors are independent of your organization and are your employees’ first port of call and guidance on any follow-up steps to be taken. We proactively focus on prevention, identify trends, educate employees, managers and advise the board, with the goal of ending and preventing undesirable behavior and integrity issues.
Evaluate and establish complaint procedure and/or reporting procedure
Partners in Vertrouwen can evaluate your existing complaints procedure and/or reporting scheme. If you do not yet have a complaints procedure or reporting arrangement, we can draft one for you so that you comply with requirements of the Labor Inspectorate and the Whistleblower Protection Act, which came into force on December 17, 2023.
Conversation guidance
It may happen that it is difficult for an employee to enter into the conversation alone with the person involved or supervisors. In this situation Partners in Vertrouwen can offer an experienced facilitator. The counsellor ensures that everyone involved can tell their story properly and checks whether they have understood each other. In this way, more formal steps can be avoided.
Intervision & training Internal Confidential Advisor
It may be that your Internal Confidential Advisors are in need of feedback, peer review, evaluation or refresher training. It is also possible that the (working) position of the Internal Confidential Advisor is at stake. In these cases your Internal Confidential Advisors can turn to Partners in Vertrouwen. Get in touch.
External Complaints Committee
If a formal complaint is filed, it is necessary to create a Grievance Committee. This must consist of at least three people, one of whom must be legally qualified. Partners in Vertrouwen can provide an external Grievance Committee for you that meets these requirements which may include an employee of your company.
Mediation
Should the situation be such that an active form of mediation is desired, the mediators of Partners in Vertrouwen can be called upon. They make sure that both parties are heard and help those involved to reach a joint solution in a number of conversations in which both parties can agree.
As an employer, do you employ more than 50 people? Or are you working in a fraud-prone industry? If so, the new Whistleblower Protection Act requires you to have an internal reporting procedure for dealing with the reporting of suspected wrongdoing within your organization.
Components of the internal reporting procedure are:
Even if you have fewer than 50 employees, it makes sense to formulate an integrity policy.
As an employer, do you employ people, or are you a foundation, association or club? If so, you must implement a PSA (psychological social workload) policy under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Components of the PSA policy are: