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Delegates Bullying Fact Sheets
- Bullying Factsheet 06 - How To Prevent Bullying In The Workplace
The most effective way to prevent bullying is for employers to send a clear
message that workplace bullying is unacceptable.
Following are some steps that you and your workmates can take to minimise and prevent bullying. The first step in
prevention is to acknowledge that bullying can exist in a workplace. Support and involvement from senior
management is essential in effecting change to prevent bullying before it becomes a problem. Occupational Health
and Safety Committees and OHS Representatives are ideally placed to deal with these issues.
Under the new consultative arrangements they can:
- Obtain high level support from the chief executive officer and senior management for implementing a
comprehensive strategy to address bullying.
- Develop, in consultation with workers, relevant unions and management, a written policy that prohibits bullying.
- Regularly distribute and promote anti-bullying policy at all levels of the organisation.
- Provide the policy and other relevant information on bullying to new staff as a standard part of induction.
- Translate the policy into relevant community languages where required so it is accessible to employees from
non-English speaking backgrounds.
- Periodically review the policy to ensure it is operating effectively and contains up to date information;
- Display anti-bullying posters on notice boards in common work areas and distribute relevant brochures.
- Conduct awareness raising sessions for general staff on bullying issues.
- Recommend appropriate training for all managers and supervisors in their role in ensuring that the workplace is
free from bullying.
- Ensure that managers and supervisors discuss and reinforce the policy at staff meetings. Verbal communication
of the policy is particularly important in workplaces where the literacy of staff may be an issue.
- Ensure that managers model appropriate standards of professional conduct at all times;
- Ensure the company's grievance procedures, code of conduct and disciplinary procedures, all make specific
reference to the issue of bullying in the workplace and have clear guidelines to deal with complaints.
- Make sure that managers and supervisors are aware of high-risk situations that are likely to create opportunities
for workplace bullying.
- Develop strategies to identify, minimise, and prevent bullying from emerging under these situations.
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