Welcome, and how this works
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This course takes about 45 minutes. You can stop at any point and pick up where you left off.
It is for everyone at work: employees, contractors, casuals, volunteers, supervisors, managers and business owners. Managers are workers too, and everything here applies to you as much as anyone.
Before you start
This course deals with sexual harassment and bullying. Some of it may be difficult to read if you have experienced either. You can stop at any point, and there is a list of support options in the final unit.
If you need someone now: 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
What changed
Australian law on this shifted substantially between 2021 and 2023, and most workplace training has not caught up. The change is not a new complaint form. It is a move from responding when someone complains to preventing it before anyone does, and it now sits in three different laws at once.
What it covers
- What actually changed, and the three legal systems that now apply together
- What sexual harassment is, in law rather than in impression
- Sex-based harassment and hostile work environments, the two newer concepts most people have never heard of
- What bullying is, and the ways it is genuinely different
- The positive duty, and what satisfying it looks like
- Why this is also a work health and safety matter
- What to do if it happens to you, and if someone tells you
What it is not
General information, not legal advice and not a substitute for your organisation’s policies or for advice on a specific situation. It is written for Australia, and some details differ between states and territories.
It also does not make you an investigator. If your role includes receiving and handling complaints, Responding to a Bullying Complaint covers that process properly and applies to these complaints too.