Family Violence Impacts at Work: What Workplace Leaders Need to Know

Tuesday Nov 25th 8am-3pm and Thursday Nov 27th 8am-12pm.

Registration includes BOTH days. Lunch is included the first day.

Family violence doesn’t stay at home. It shows up in the workplace in ways that impact safety, productivity, and employee wellbeing. For workplace leaders, HR professionals, and workplace safety team members, understanding these impacts isn’t just a moral imperative. It’s an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) compliance and risk management issue. **

This comprehensive, interactive training program will develop your knowledge, skills and confidence to recognize and effectively respond to family violence within your workplace.

Topics Include:

• The unique risks, costs, and disruptions family violence can create in your organization
• Employer responsibilities and employee rights to safety from family violence impacts in the workplace
• How to build awareness and recognize the signs of family violence in a workplace context, and support your staff in doing the same
• Resources and supports for your organization to strengthen employee wellbeing and workplace culture
• Safe response pathways, effective prevention and safety planning strategies

You’ll come away with practical tools and a strong framework to meet your OHS obligations while creating a safer, more supportive workplace.

Important note: 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, sexual harassment and violence, covering a wide range of violent trauma including homicide.

**Why should you and other workplace leaders book our trainings for you and your staff?

“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

• Domestic violence is included in the definition of violence in the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act.
• If an employer knows that a domestic violence incident might come into the workplace, they must take steps to protect workers.
• Workers must report to their employer or supervisor if they think domestic violence is (or might be) occurring at the work site.

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