In places where there has been legislation about, say, sexual harassment, it becomes mandated that there must be a designated person in the company or in the department that is a “safe place” for people to go to tell their story. I think it's sometimes very hard to tell your immediate boss, or even harder sometimes to tell the boss above your boss.
Would this be part of comprehensive whistle-blowing legislation, to your mind: that somebody be designated as almost the ombudsman for this?