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

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 support your team in recognizing and effectively responding 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.

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

IMPORTANT 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.

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**Why book our 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:

Workplace violence and harassment prevention plans must include

• Training to help workers recognize domestic violence
• Supports and safety planning policies for victims and colleagues 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.

"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

• https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Acts/O02P2.pdf
• https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/OHS/OHSCode_March_31,_2025_(rep_s850)_only.pdf
• https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/7463e790-8eda-47bf-b632-6c171b77c84d/resource/866faa5b-83c9-48fa-8f66-2046ff2dd836/download/jet-li059-domestic-violence-in-the-workplace-2025-03.pdf

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