Boeing says that employee submissions to its confidential internal service for raising safety concerns have skyrocketed in 2024. 

According to the Guardian, Boeing vice president Lisa Fahl delivered the update in a briefing on April 15. A spokeswoman for Beoing said the number of workers using the company's "Speak Up" portal to confidentially report concerns has risen by 500% year over year for the first quarter. 

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“We have exploded in the amount of Speak Ups that have come in, because we’re continually encouraging it,” Fahl said in the briefing, adding that the number of submissions in January and February was equal to all of last year's total. 

Boeing has urged employees to use Speak Up to report any issues in the wake of months of turmoil for the planemaker. Those issues date back to the blowout of a door plug aboard a Boeing 737 Max 9 in January, followed by a slew of other incidents on Boeing aircraft in the weeks to follow. Most recently, Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour stepped forward as a whistleblower, claiming that a flawed assembly process put 787 Dreamliners at risk of breaking apart over time. 

The Federal Aviation Administration is currently investigating Salehpour's claims. Boeing has asserted that the assembly process for its Dreamliners has "no impact on the durability or safe longevity of the airframe."