Inspired by a couple of safeguarding threads that I've just seen this evening!
I've reported what I see as serious situations twice and absolutely feel that I've don't the right thing! Although nobody knows that it was me and I would never tell.
The first was when I was part of a fairly young group/team and a section of them had a big party. The next morning a good few of them drove in still drunk. They made no attempts to hide the fact.
They have this party every year and it's windy national speed roads that they had driven on. I could just see this leading to disaster one year so I told the boss. He didn't ask for names and I didn't give them, but I overheard the drivers being very annoyed saying there was a snitch in the group after he pulled up the whole group about the risks they had taken.
Second is I worked in care and the manager got some of the staff to make up lots of paperwork that had been missed/just not done. Somebody was coming in to check on the individual that day and he he found out he went into a frenzy trying to cover up the tracks of what had been missed. I called the area manager and he was never seen in work again (area manager spoke to the paperwork staff and they backed up what I'd told them).
I honestly don't have any regrets, there could have been serious harm done in both of these situations. I didn't take pleasure in them though I just think they had to be done!
What have been your whistleblowing moments and were they followed through on?