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 significantly impact productivity, workplace safety, and employee wellbeing. For business leaders, 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 health and psychological wellbeing.

Take an hour to transform your approach to workplace safety! Find out why this matters to your business--the risks and costs that family violence has on your organization and staff.

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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