Confidentiality in the

Workplace
 Procedures for keeping information private
 Confidentiality Standards

 Maintaining confidentiality in the workplace is

of utmost importance for modern organizations
today to ensure that their customers, clients
and employees can trust them. You will see
how organizations today can keep up their
confidentiality standards.
 Personal Information

 Confidentiality in the workplace can be defined as

keeping the employee (coop student), customer and
client information private.
 Usually, it is seen that organizations take a number of
steps to ensure that client information remains
confidential but when it comes to employee
information, they are not so much concerned.
 However, this thought process needs to be changed
and the employers need to understand the importance
of confidentiality in the workplace, only then they can
can expect their staff to treat client and customer
information with care.
Importance of Confidentiality in the Workplace

 It is the coop student responsibility to treat all

the information that they comes across in the
organization, pertaining to the clients or the
customers or about some issues in the
organization itself, as private.
 Whatever an employee sees or hears at the
workplace, should remain at the workplace and
no information has to be given to any outside
party.
 Breach of Confidentiality

 A coop student should know what files or materials

they are permitted to access in the placement and he
should adhere to that.
 Under no circumstances should the materials in the
placement be given to outside people.
 Also, employees should not discuss any business
dealings with the clients, outside work. Otherwise, it
is considered as a breach of confidentiality in the
workplace and the coop student may even be
dismissed for it.
 Maintaining Confidentiality

 Maintaining confidentiality in the workplace is very

important as not doing the same can sometimes cause
huge financial losses to the business.
 It can even have many negative repercussions on the
business's reputation as well. The client or the
customer can file legal suits against the organization if
they feel that some sensitive information regarding
them have been revealed by the organization or its
employees.
 It is very important for the employees as well as the
organization to protect information in the workplace .
 How to Maintain Confidentiality in the Workplace

 It is very important that the employees (coop

students) know which actions of theirs will be
considered as breach of confidentiality.
 Policies

 Policies and procedures with regards to the maintenance

of confidentiality in the workplace are regularly updated
according to the new laws devised by the government.
 By maintaining the confidentiality standards in the
workplace, an organization not only protects itself from
legal hassles but improves the employee productivity as
well by providing them with a secure and safe work
environment.