Ethics programs must be supervised by high-ranking individuals known to uphold legal and ethical standards. Ethics officers are responsible for managing their organization's ethical and legal compliance programs. They are responsible for assessing the needs and risks that an organization-wide ethics program faces, developing and distributing a code of conduct or ethics, conducting training programs for employees, creating and maintaining a Confidential service to answer employee questions about ethical issues, ensuring the company complies with government regulations, monitoring and verifying ethical conduct, addressing possible violations of the company code, and reviewing and updating the code. Ethics officers are able to reduce code of conduct misconduct by up to 75%. Ethics officers are another vital component to successful ethics