Demant has established a whistleblower hotline, which enables employees, business partners and all other internal and external stakeholders to report any concerns about serious and sensitive matters confidentially and anonymously. We encourage employees and external stakeholders to raise their concerns about serious and sensitive actions that (1) fail to comply with our Code of Conduct, (2) fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations and/or (3) jeopardise the health and safety of our employees.

The whistleblower hotline enables employees, business partners and other stakeholders to report their concerns relating to corruption and bribery confidentially and anonymously. Group Legal & Compliance manages all reports received through the whistleblower hotline and our Whistleblower Policy and Investigation Guideline ensure that the investigator involved in a specific whistleblower case is independent from the chain of management involved in the matter.

Group Legal & Compliance manages the whistleblower hotline and has developed an Investigation Guideline, which is a tool that describes step-by-step how an investigation into a concern raised by an employee is conducted.

Group Legal & Compliance works closely with Global HR and has, in collaboration with them, developed an HR investigation process, which HR uses when conducting HR-related investigations. Employee concerns can also be reported to HR or managers directly and do not have to be reported through the whistleblower hotline.