Ethical Business
Speak up culture

We are committed to maintaining a work environment where all employees feel comfortable raising issues and voicing concerns.

Our Compliance and Ethics team maintains the BMS Integrity Line, which is available 24/7 and in multiple languages to receive concerns from our global workforce. In most markets, reports can be made anonymously. The existence and importance of the Integrity Line is broadly and frequently communicated.

Compliance and Ethics reviews and triages concerns to ensure compliance with our Principles of Integrity, policies, and commitment to ethical behavior. When additional fact-finding is needed, the Integrity Line and Investigations Center of Expertise coordinates a cross-functional team of other internal investigative functions, including Employee Relations, Corporate Security, and Government Investigations.

We conduct fair, timely and respectful investigations in support of our culture of integrity, and issue discipline as appropriate, as well as to identify gaps, trends and business process improvements on an ongoing basis. Individual investigation outcomes, metrics and trends, and gaps and opportunities are shared with leaders to ensure continuous learning and to strengthen our culture of ethics and integrity.