1. Confidentiality in the Workplace
Procedures for keeping information private

2. Confidentiality Standards
Maintaining confidentiality in the workplace is of utmost importance for modern organizations today to ensure that their customers, clients and employees can trust them. You will see how organizations today can keep up their confidentiality standards.

3. Personal Information
Confidentiality in the workplace can be defined as keeping the employee (coop student), customer and client information private.
Usually, it is seen that organizations take a number of steps to ensure that client information remains confidential but when it comes to employee information, they are not so much concerned.
However, this thought process needs to be changed and the employers need to understand the importance of confidentiality in the workplace, only then they can can expect their staff to treat client and customer information with care.

4. Importance of Confidentiality in the Workplace
It is the coop student responsibility to treat all the information that they comes across in the organization, pertaining to the clients or the customers or about some issues in the organization itself, as private.
Whatever an employee sees or hears at the workplace, should remain at the workplace and no information has to be given to any outside party.

5. Breach of Confidentiality
A coop student should know what files or materials they are permitted to access in the placement and he should adhere to that.
Under no circumstances should the materials in the placement be given to outside people.
Also, employees should not discuss any business dealings with the clients, outside work. Otherwise, it is considered as a breach of confidentiality in the workplace and the coop student may even be dismissed for it.

6. Maintaining Confidentiality
Maintaining confidentiality in the workplace is very important as not doing the same can sometimes cause huge financial losses to the business.
It can even have many negative repercussions on the business's reputation as well. The client or the customer can file legal suits against the organization if they feel that some sensitive information regarding them have been revealed by the organization or its employees.
It is very important for the employees as well as the organization to protect information in the workplace.

7. How to Maintain Confidentiality in the Workplace
It is very important that the employees (coop students) know which actions of theirs will be considered as breach of confidentiality.

8. Policies
Policies and procedures with regards to the maintenance of confidentiality in the workplace are regularly updated according to the new laws devised by the government.
By maintaining the confidentiality standards in the workplace, an organization not only protects itself from legal hassles but improves the employee productivity as well by providing them with a secure and safe work environment.