German Supply Chain Act: Driving ethical practices in the supply chain

In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council published its Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights[1], requiring companies to protect, respect and remedy adverse human rights impacts to which they directly contribute. A number of European countries, such as France and the United Kingdom, subsequently developed domestic compliance standards for firms with international supply chains. Most recently, the German Federal Parliament and the German ...

SAI360 Expands ESG Software and Learning Solutions with 2023 Release One

Latest release reflects SAI360’s commitment to help companies operationalize ESG initiatives As pressure mounts for organizations to establish and meet tangible Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) milestones, SAI360’s newest market release demonstrates the critical role digital technology is playing. “Today we are launching a new suite of software and learning tools, further expanding our capabilities to help companies implement, operationalize and report on ESG initiatives,” shares ...

New Zealand Employers Lead the Charge to Reduce Impact of Climate Change

New Zealand’s first Emissions Reduction Program will put employers operating out of New Zealand at the forefront of reducing the impact of climate change. The aim of the program is to contribute to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5˚C above pre-industrial levels. Additional global warming can cause irreversible impacts to the environment including more extreme weather conditions that can severely affect agriculture and ...

Updates to Model WHS Laws in Australia

Australian employers must take the lead in managing employees’ mental health. With the recent updates to the Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws from Safe Work Australia, employers have a responsibility to protect their workers from any psychological risks and hazards. Safe Work Australia Chief Executive Officer Michelle Baxter said that “under work health and safety laws, [any Persons Conducting a Business Undertaking] (PCBUs) ...

Cybersecurity Awareness: Data Privacy and Protection

As we recognize Information Security month this October, we should also acknowledge that the grandfather of all Data Privacy and Protection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is now over six years old itself. If you're like me, just a mention of the GDPR still puts your head on a swivel, wondering where your servers' backup servers are, who will be your organization’s data ...

By |2025-04-28T02:08:10+00:00October 12th, 2022|Ethics & Compliance Learning, IT Risk & Cybersecurity, SAI360|

Your Introduction to FCA Business Resilience

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) defines resilience as “the ability of firms, financial market infrastructures and the financial sector as a whole to prevent, adapt and respond to, and recover and learn from operational disruption”. Ensuring the business resilience of the financial sector is crucial for consumers, firms and the broader financial markets. Significant business disruptions and the unavailability of important business services have the potential to cause ...

SAI360 and Colgate-Palmolive Brandon Hall Excellence Awards

SAI360, in partnership with Colgate-Palmolive, recently won three 2022 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards for their creation of outstanding learning and development trainings. SAI360 has more than 20 years of experience partnering with organizations to deliver award-winning ethics and compliance programs. The following programs developed by SAI360 and Colgate-Palmolive were recognized: “Annual Ethical Leadership Training Program” Gold Award for Best Advance in Compliance Training “Global Anti-Bribery: ...

By |2025-05-09T16:26:02+00:00September 27th, 2022|Ethics & Compliance Learning|

National Compliance Officer Day, September 26

The contributions of a Compliance Officer and their team often go unnoticed, despite the fact that their roles have expanded exponentially over the last decade. As new regulations arrive with greater frequency and major ethical and cultural issues challenge organizations worldwide, Compliance Officers work hard to keep us on the right side of the law. Here at SAI360, we’re proud to have recognized the important ...

By |2025-04-28T02:06:20+00:00September 20th, 2022|Ethics & Compliance Learning, SAI360|

Celebrate National Online Learning Day

September 15 is National Online Learning Day and we’d like you to celebrate with us by taking a few moments to recognize the important role online learning plays in our daily lives. Today we take the millions of terabytes of information available at our fingertips for granted, but did you realize that the basic principles of online learning took root more than 100 years ago? The ...

By |2025-05-08T20:37:04+00:00September 14th, 2022|Ethics & Compliance Learning, SAI360|

Sapin II: The Role of Technology in Preventing Corruption

Introduction In December 2016, the French government published a bill titled “Transparency, Fighting Corruption and Modernizing Economic Life”.[1] Otherwise known as the Sapin II law, the objective of this bill was to generate an anti-corruption mechanism in France by building on the progress brought about by the 1993 Sapin Act.[2] Sapin II aligns French anti-corruption law with aspects of U.S. and UK corruption enforcement, introducing ...