Family Violence Impacts at Work: What Management Teams Need to Know

Develop the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to recognize, respond to, and prevent family violence impacting your staff.
About this Event

Family violence doesn’t stay at home. It shows up in the workplace in ways that impact safety, productivity, and employee wellbeing. Understanding these impacts is more than just an Occupational Health and Safety compliance and risk management issue. It’s a commitment to employee safety and to strengthening a workplace culture of care.

A comprehensive, interactive training program designed for management and supervisory team members, including Human Resources Managers, Occupational Health and Safety Representatives, Wellness Team Leads, Security Officers.

Participants will be prepared to:

• Recognize and effectively respond to family violence within the workplace
• Understand the complexities, impacts and risks of family violence in your workplace
• Recognizing your own workplace and employee specific risks
• Opening sensitive conversations with employees, managing disclosures, and providing support with or without disclosures
• Recognize unique needs and risks when family violence is occurring between employees
• Integrate effective prevention, organizational response pathways, and safety planning strategies
• Connect staff to resources that strengthen employee wellbeing and workplace empowerment
• Promote a workplace culture of mental wellness, resilience, and psychological safety

Management staff will come away with practical tools and a strong framework to meet your organizations OHS obligations while creating a safer, more supportive workplace.

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What do you need to include in your workplace violence and harassment prevention plans?

• Training to help workers recognize domestic violence and it's risks
• Supports and safety planning policies for victims, colleagues, and clientele impacted by domestic violence within the workplace.
• A process for workers to report to their employer or supervisor if they think domestic violence is (or might be) occurring at the work site.

Why do you need to provide domestic violence trainings for yourself, your management and staff?

Domestic violence is included in the definition of violence in Alberta's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and Code:

"3(1)Every employer shall ensure, as far as it is reasonably practicable for the employer to do so, (c) that none of the employer’s workers are subjected to or participate in harassment or violence at the work site" OHS Act, Ch 0-2.2, Part 1

"“violence”, whether at a work site or work-related, means the threatened, attempted or actual conduct of a person that causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological injury or harm, and includes domestic or sexual violence" OHS Act, Ch 0-2.2, Definitions 1(rr)

“When an employer is aware that a worker is or is likely to be exposed to domestic violence at a work site, the employer must take reasonable precautions to protect the worker and any other persons at the work site likely to be affected.” OHS Code Part 27, Section 390.3

Content Warning: This training includes discussions, case-studies and videos that may be challenging or triggering for some participants. Family Violence education addresses physical and emotional violence, coercive control and stalking, violence towards children and animals, sexual violence, and covers a wide range of violent trauma including assault and homicide.

BOOKING NOTE: Due to the interactive nature of the group work, participatory and discussion-based activities, this workshop requires a minimum number of participants to run. If we do not meet that threshold, we will rebook for a future date. Registrants will have the option to carry their registration over to the new date, or cancel for a full refund.