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Assessing the potential risks that whistleblowers face in their organisation requires HR leaders to take a "really broad" view, a workplace lawyer stresses.

This is made clear in a new ASIC report, which builds on pre-existing regulatory guidance by drawing on the experiences of whistleblower programs in seven organisations.

The report's advice on creating a program, engaging and communicating with employees, fostering a safe-to-speak-up culture, and ensuring a framework to mitigate the risk of detriment to individual whistleblowers, is particularly relevant to HR, says Clayton Utz partner Amanda Lyras...