NAVEX Global is concerned with a different type of occupational hazard - white-collar crime. The company is a pioneer in the governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) industry. Founded as Alertline in 1981, it was the first to offer an ethics reporting hotline. Today NAVEX Global offers consulting services to help companies prevent and report misconduct such as fraud, security breaches, and conflicts of interest. It provides federally mandated corporate codes of conduct, offers hotline and web reporting, performs investigations, and issue corporate social responsibility reports. NAVEX Global has more than 8,000 customers and operates from four offices in the US and one in London.