Welcome to Blum Integrity Line. Here you have the opportunity to report your concerns. On this page you will learn what you need to consider and what topics reports can relate to. Please read the following paragraphs carefully. If you make a report via the Blum Integrity Line, please note that it will be dealt with by an internal team at Julius Blum GmbH in Austria.
For us as a company, the receipt and subsequent investigation of reports is an opportunity to constantly scrutinise and improve our actions as well as our guidelines and processes. By reporting concerns, compliance risks such as possible reputational damage can be recognised and averted at an early stage.
We want to ensure lawful behaviour in our company and at the same time make it easy to submit reports if necessary. Our basic premise is that any misconduct or violations will be addressed directly face-to-face. This means that any accidental or unintentional misconduct can be stopped quickly and easily and avoided in the future.
If, in individual cases, a face-to-face dialogue does not lead to the desired result, the Blum Integrity Line is available.
You can provide your contact details or submit the report anonymously. Reports can be submitted in both German and English. Reports that are submitted in other languages will not be followed up.
Responses are sent in the language you used as the whistleblower.
Reports are submitted by completing a digital form, which is electronically "registered". All reports are collected centrally and confidentially processed by the responsible members of the Blum Integrity Line team. These individuals are instructed to:
If you included your name when you submitted the notification, you will receive a direct response by email. With anonymous submissions, you will receive a code that can be used to log into a personal mailbox and obtain updates and enter further information.
Receipt of a report will be confirmed directly. Questions can be sent via email or the personal mailbox. Three months after confirmation of receipt at the latest, you as the whistleblower will receive information about what follow-up measures are intended, have been taken or why the report is not being followed up.
If you do not wish to be contacted, please include this in your message.
Depending on the circumstances, reports may be forwarded for further processing within the company.
Whether you are protected as a whistleblower by the Austrian Whistleblower Protection Act (HSchG) depends on the connection to our company, the type of report and validity of the report.
If all the conditions for whistleblower protection are met, then you are protected from reprisals such as dismissal, negative performance reviews or other disciplinary measures in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act.
In all cases, we guarantee the protection of your identity as the whistleblower, as well as the identity of those affected.
We prefer to talk to you in person and would like to offer you the option of contacting us personally with your concerns. To do so, please use the email address code.of.conduct@blum.com.
In addition to the ability to submit information internally, you also have the option of submitting information externally. External bodies vary depending on the country. The first external point of contact available to you in Austria is the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption.
If you have already submitted a report, please enter your code here:
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