Health & Safety Bulletin – Workplace Bullying – July 20

Tasman Group has a policy in place for workplace bullying which is part of the Employee Relations Manual (ERM).

Organisations can minimise the risk of workplace bullying by taking a proactive approach to identify early, any unreasonable behaviour and situations likely to increase the risk of workplace bullying occuring.

Other control measures to manage these risks include:

• Regular consultation with workers and health and safety representatives to find out if bullying is occuring or if there are factors likely to increase the risk of workplace bullying.
• Setting the standards of workplace behaviour
• Designing safe systems of work by clearly definining jobs and providing workers with the resources, information and training they need to carry out their work safely.
• Implementing workplace bullying and response procedures.
• Developing productive and respectful workplace relationships through good management practices and effective communication.
• Providing information and training on workplace bullying policies and procedures, available support and assistance, and how to prevent and respond to workplace bullying.
• Prioritising measures that foster and protect the psychological health of employees.