Trust is an important part of any business or working relationship. While background checks have long been a part of the hiring process, they can also serve a valuable function with current employees. Conducting a background check on current employees every few years or so provides multiple benefits for employees and employers. Here are four reasons to run background checks on current employees.

Staying Safe

Safety is paramount in any work environment, whether it’s a factory, office, store, or elsewhere. Initial background checks work for screening potential employees, but things change over time. Behavioral issues, incidents, and outside circumstances may make a formerly trustworthy employee less so. Periodic background checks catch problems and red flags along the way, allowing both parties the opportunity to take positive action before any serious problems arise.

Maintaining Compliance

Not all background checks investigate an employee’s life. Employers can also use them to assess whether the employee is staying on top of opportunities to educate and advance themselves. Many industries require ongoing education and training, especially in the financial, healthcare, childcare, and similar sectors. Others require clean records with no history of criminal activity, no registry on a sex offender list, and the like. Regular background checks reveal whether employees are still eligible for their jobs or if they simply need to acquire certification, credentials, and similar validations of their skills and knowledge.

Protecting the Brand

Employees are often the first point of contact for your customers, clients, vendors, and partners. As such, you want responsible and respectable individuals to represent you. Background checks look for scandals, irresponsible actions, and other words and actions that might alienate your clientele and damage the brand. It’s best to catch behavior that has the potential to reflect badly on you and your brand before it becomes common knowledge. Naturally, this behavior can become a legal issue, so approach the situation carefully and discuss the issue with your attorney before acting.

Transparency and Fairness

You should never conduct background checks in a way that betrays an employee’s trust. Conduct them in a transparent and fair way for all employees, from the top down. Employees appreciate that their employer is holding everyone to the same standards. These actions create an atmosphere and culture of accountability and trust, and future employees will know the company only hires safe, skilled, and responsible workers.

Those are just four reasons to run background checks on current employees. Running a background check every two to five years is a good policy, but the frequency with which you run background checks on current employees depends on your company and industry’s particular needs. Regardless, it’s always a wise policy, and one that pays back the company and its employees with multiple benefits.

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