Non-Retaliation for Break-Glass The organisation’s AI governance policy explicitly protects any individual who triggers a break-glass action in good faith from negative consequences. A culture in which operators or managers hesitate to stop a system because they fear career repercussions is one in which harmful AI systems continue to operate. The non-retaliation commitment covers good-faith activations that turn out to have been unnecessary. False positives are the expected cost of an effective safety mechanism; penalising them discourages future legitimate activations. The commitment is communicated during operator training, reinforced by management, and enforceable through the organisation’s HR policies. The Internal Audit Assurance Lead verifies non-retaliation compliance as part of the annual oversight audit, including confidential interviews with personnel who have activated break-glass procedures. Key outputs

• Explicit non-retaliation for good-faith break-glass activations
• Coverage includes false positives
• Annual verification by Internal Audit Assurance Lead
• Module 7 AISDP documentation