Linguist Mark A. In the rugged landscape of the Sierra Madre Mountains, clouds envelop the area much of the year, where Sicoli worked with Yetman and whistle speakers in the town of San Pedro Sochiapam. When men tended agricultural fields on the mountainsides, they developed whistled speech to communicate over long distances. With the fog and steep terrain, they were likely well out of visual range, so instead of having no contact all day unless they hiked hours to meet, the men whistled — not just a few notes, but whole conversations.
The whistled speech in Sochiapam is part of Chinantec, a language that contains seven different tones. They can be made from different materials, such as metal, wood or plastic. Even the pipes in a pipe organ are essentially whistles. Despite these differences, basically all whistles work alike.
What happens when air is blown into a whistle is a complicated mathematical equation. But here are the basics. Air enters the whistle at one end. We invest in and maintain information systems that ensure uninterrupted access to and secure storage of data. Our on and off-site back-up procedures and data encryption methods are of a level not easily matched by an in-house ethics hotline system.
Our data management practices are continually reviewed for compliance with the data processing and privacy requirements of applicable legislation relating to personal information. Your designated recipients receive anonymised and high-quality written reports arising from every contact made with us concerning your organisation within 24 hours.
If an incident in progress needs to be brought to your attention immediately, emergency reports are made telephonically, enabling you to take swift action. Written reports are subjected to a stringent accuracy and anonymisation quality control process, ensuring that you get the maximum possible information without compromising the identity of your whistle blower.
If the spotlight were to shine on unethical conduct in your organisation, you will want to be able to assure your governing body and the public that your ethics hotline is being managed according to the highest standards. Learn more about your assurance that Whistle Blowers will manage your ethics hotline in keeping with the latest and evolving international best practice standards.
Launching an ethics hotline for the first time or replacing an existing service is a key opportunity that we help you maximise. Our implementation training is conducted by highly experienced members of our team. They are equipped to address every query and concern with confidence. Our learning materials are aligned with the latest international research on effective messaging to promote a courageous and ethical workplace culture.
We help you keep your ethics hotline top of mind with our wide range of awareness promotion items. From key rings to USB sticks, pamphlets to lanyards, vehicle stickers to whistles, our wide range of physical products is supported by electronic mail shots, email footers and screensavers.
Included in the induction packs together with your ethics and whistleblowing policy, they help ensure that your expectation that your employees speak up is made known to them from the outset. Our awareness posters not only promote the ethics hotline to your employees, they reinforce your broader workplace ethics programme. Choose from our existing and evolving range of posters or let us work with you to tailor-make your messages. Because it is our core business, we devote considerable resources to monitoring the latest legislation and research relating to the promotion of effective and safe whistleblowing around the world.
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