Anti-bullying and anti-harassment for employees (AU)

Duration: 55 minutes

Overview: This course is about understanding the meaning of bullying and harassment in Australia, so you can learn to identify and prevent it from occurring in your workplace. We examine:

• the types of bullying and harassment,
• understand how they occur, and
• examine their impact on individuals.

We also review how to respond to instances of bullying and harassment and the various resolution procedures available.

Why is this course important? Bullying and harassment can cause major harm to the well-being of individuals and such behaviour can have a negative impact on a person's health and happiness, which affects their ability to do their job. Breaches of bullying and harassment laws can also incur significant costs on your business - penalties, litigation, loss of reputation and high levels of employee turnover.

Suitable for: All employees

Note: Managers and Supervisors should complete Anti-bullying and anti-harassment for managers (AU). 

This course is based on federal Australian law, including legislation implementing recommendations of the Respect@Work: Sexual Harassment National Inquiry Report (March 2020), and should be read in conjunction with any particular legislation, guidelines, rulings, employment contracts, policies and procedures that apply to your particular role and workplace.

Online Assessment: Yes

Workplace Activities: None

Disclaimer: The information in this course is intended to provide a general introduction about bullying and harassment in the workplace. The scope is intended only to provide a generic summary of how to recognise and manage bullying and harassment. The case studies in this course are hypothetical and the recommendations it makes should not be relied upon. This course is not intended to be comprehensive, does not constitute legal advice and should be considered together with any relevant employment agreements, legislation, regulations, directives, guidance and workplace policies or other documents that are applicable to your particular role or workplace. In the event of discrepancy between this training course and documents specific to your workplace, the documents specific to your workplace should be applied. OmniaCapture is not responsible to you or anyone else for any loss suffered in connection with the use of this information. You should seek legal or other professional advice before acting or relying on any of the information contained in this training course.