--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | AHERA description: AHERA | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Employment Law: Protecting Whistleblowers Protects the Organization](https://blog.stpub.com/employment-law-protecting-whistleblowers-protects-the-organization) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Wed, Mar 17, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/businessman-checking-documents-table.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/employment-law-protecting-whistleblowers-protects-the-organization) Regulators often rely on whistleblowers to reveal ongoing violations, and prosecutors rely on whistleblowers and informants from time to time to “make their cases.” Recognizing this value, many federal and state laws provide explicit protections for employees who report actual or potential violations to their employers or to the agencies that administer and enforce those laws. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has administered such a provision for workers disclosing violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act for more than 40 years. In the intervening decades, a wide variety of federal statutes have expanded OSHA’s whistleblower protection activities, assigning OSHA to enforce whistleblower protection provisions of other laws; as of 2021 this authority covers 24 distinct federal laws. The best known and most litigated of these non-worker laws probably is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOx) – Section 806 of that law protects whistleblowers who report activities that may violate anti-fraud provisions of the federal Securities Acts. The rest of this posting identifies these laws, and summarizes how OSHA administers them. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/employment-law-protecting-whistleblowers-protects-the-organization) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/employment-law-protecting-whistleblowers-protects-the-organization#comments-listing) Tags: [OSHA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/osha), [tsca](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/tsca), [Labour & Employment](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/labour-employment), [SDWA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/sdwa), [ACA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/aca), [ERA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/era), [FSMA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/fsma), [FRSA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/frsa), [OSH Act](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/osh-act), [AMLA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/amla), [AHERA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/ahera), [CFPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/cfpa), [CPSIA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/cpsia), [CAARA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/caara), [FWPCA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/fwpca), [ISCA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/isca), [NTSSA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/ntssa), [PSIA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/psia), [SPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/spa), [STAA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/staa), [TFA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/tfa) [All posts](https://blog.stpub.com/all) ### Follow Me ### Subscribe by Email ### Browse by Topic Area - [Accounting & Tax ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/accounting-tax) - [Business & Legal ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Corporate Governance  ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Corporate+Governance) - [Environmental ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Environmental) - [Global ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Global) - [Health & Safety ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [Internet ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Internet) - [Transportation ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Transportation) ### Browse by Tag - [Environmental (344)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental) - [Business & Legal (309)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Environmental risks (300)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-risks) - [Health & Safety (296)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [EPA (283)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa) - [Terms & Conditions](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-Terms-of-Use-Dec-20.pdf) - [Privacy Policy](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/STP-Privacy-Policy.pdf) - [License Agreement](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-License-Agreement-Dec-20.pdf) - [Sitemap](http://stpub.com/sitemap) - [Support](http://stpub.com/support) © 2021 STP ComplianceEHS - All rights reserved