Introduction and Purpose
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Architectural Window Systems Pty Ltd (“the Company”) strives to operate with a culture of ethical and appropriate corporate behaviour in all our business activities. This includes ensuring that the Company acts with integrity, honestly and in accordance with good governance principles.
This purpose is supported by:
- ensuring that the Company has sound procedures to allow all workers and their families to identify and report genuine concerns about illegal conduct or any improper state of affairs pertaining to the Company, without fear of reprisals;
- ensuring all employees and officers of the Company are aware of the protections available under this policy and Whistleblower Laws; and
- encouraging all Company employees (and non-employees) to have the confidence to speak up if they become aware of illegal conduct or any improper state of affairs pertaining to the Company.
This Whistleblowing Policy is extremely important as it helps to identify wrongdoing that may not be uncovered unless there is a safe and secure means for disclosing wrongdoing.
In this policy:
Discloser(s) refers to the persons eligible to make a disclosure protected by Whistleblower Laws. These persons are identified in section 6 below.
Protected Matters refers to the types of matters outlined at section 5 below, which are protected by Whistleblower Laws and the terms of this policy.
Whistleblower Laws refers to the protections contained in Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act 2001 as well as the accompanying Corporations Regulations 2001.
Whistleblowing Officer is the Financial Controller.
