Bullying can cause both psychological and physical harm, making it a risk to health and safety.
Under model WHS laws, persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) must manage the health and safety risks of workplace bullying.
Supporting Information
- Guide for preventing and responding to workplace bullying
- Dealing with workplace bullying - a workers' guide
- Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work
- Mental health
- Workplace sexual harassment
- Workplace violence and aggression
- Online abuse in the workplace
- Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks
The eSafety website also has lots of tips for staying safe online:
- eSafety’s responding to cyber abuse guide provides a visual breakdown of proactive strategies to take if you encounter various forms of cyber abuse.
- Image-based abuse explains what to do when an intimate image has been shared without consent.
- Domestic and family violence has advice on how to deal with online abuse when it is part of domestic and family violence.
- eSafety offers practical tips on how to stay safe online, including a Technology check-up for ways to protect personal information and a ‘how-to’ video library to help you use devices safely. Their Women in the Spotlight (WITS) program provides further information on how to prevent and manage online abuse, and offers social media self-defence training to help people who use technology as part of their professional lives to manage online abuse.
- eSafety’s Tech trends and challenges position statements, which provides information on the latest information, technological developments and global trends.
