Three ways to report
Anonymous: no name with the report. Confidential: the name opens only after a second person approves it, and the person is told. Open: the case team sees the name.
Anonymous reporting
Speak up without giving your name, and still be heard
No name and no internet address kept with the report. The person who reported can still read replies and answer questions, so the case team can ask what it needs to know.
What it does today
Nothing that points back
The case team sees a pseudonym such as R-7KQ2. Name, account and internet address are not kept with an anonymous report.
A reference and an access code
Reporting without an account gives a reference, an access code shown once, and an optional PIN. Together they open the report again. Nobody can look it up by name.
Two-way, still anonymous
The case team writes through the portal and the reporter answers the same way. A note reminds the team not to ask questions only the reporter could answer.
A link and a poster per company
Each company has its own reporting page and an A4 QR poster. Where the company allows it, people report without an account, from the page or a kiosk tablet.
Checked on after the case closes
One, three and six months after a case closes, the reporter is asked whether anything has changed at work. A concern alerts the case team straight away.
How it works
- Open your company's page
From its link or QR poster. Sign in with a code sent to your work email, or report without an account where the company allows it.
- Say what happened
In a few short steps, typed or spoken, in one of six languages. Choose Anonymous.
- Keep the way back
Without an account: the reference and access code, shown once. Signed in: the report is under My reports, through a link only you can open.
- Read replies, answer questions
The case team must acknowledge within 7 days, and you can reply or add details at any time.
Talking to someone you can't see
The case team writes through the portal and never learns who it is talking to. The reporter answers in their own language.
The law
The law it helps with
What it asksChannels designed to keep the reporter's identity confidential (Art. 9 and 16). Whether to accept anonymous reports is left to each country.
What the product doesAnonymous and confidential reporting, identities sealed with their own key, and two-way messages that reveal nothing about the reporter.
What it asksA vigil mechanism with adequate safeguards against victimisation of the people who use it.
What the product doesReporting without a name, and check-ins after a case closes to catch retaliation early.
What it asksA vigil mechanism for directors and employees, with safeguards against victimisation.
What the product doesThe same channel for directors and employees, with the same protections.
What it asksThe identity of the complainant, respondent and witnesses must not be made public.
What the product doesNames sealed by default. A confidential name opens only with a second person's approval, and the person is told.
A summary, not legal advice. Your lawyers will know which rules apply to your company.
Said plainly
Anonymity protects the channel. It cannot hide what the words themselves give away.
- If only a few people could know a detail, mentioning it can identify you. Leave out what you don't need to say.
- Lose the access code and nobody can find the report for you, because it is linked to no one. Make a new report and mention what you remember.
- Reporting without an account is switched on by each company. Where it is off, sign in and choose Anonymous: the case team sees no name or account, and the only link back to you is sealed with a separate key.
- Like any website, the network that delivers the page sees your internet address. SpeakUpSafe doesn't keep it with the report.
See it with your own questions
A walkthrough of the screens on this page, set up around your company.