Workplace Bullying

Quick Answer: The best workplace bullying and harassment training providers in Australia for 2026 are Sentrient (Australian, online, legally endorsed, records built in), Safetrac (Australian, legally reviewed online courses), iHR Australia (facilitated, actor-based scenarios) and SmartCulture (psychological safety focus). The thing most lists miss: since the positive duty became enforceable on 12 December 2023, employers […]

As a manager, you have a responsibility to intervene as soon as possible after suspecting or becoming aware there is unreasonable behaviour happening in your workplace. Here are six things to consider when responding to workplace bullying. Is The Behaviour Bullying or Not? The precise nature of the behaviour should be understood prior to developing […]

Workplace Bullying Is a Serious Issue Workplace bullying is a serious issue and will not be tolerated by those organisations that have a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace culture. If an employee, contractor or volunteer has been found to have engaged in workplace bullying, it may be treated as misconduct, and in very serious cases, […]

Sentrient is proud to release the new Preventing and Responding to Workplace Bullying for Supervisors and Managers online course as its latest online course that forms part of a series of online compliance courses to help supervisors and managers take proactive steps to mitigate against breaches of safety, invasion of privacy, and incidents of bullying, […]

Quick Answer: A supervisor or manager carries personal exposure on workplace bullying that sits separately from the organisation’s. You can be named by name in a stop bullying application, with your own form to respond to. You can be personally liable under the Fair Work Act if you were involved in a contravention. And you […]

Bullying usually involves not just a bully but a target and potentially bystanders. Bystanders play an important role in dissolving or exaggerating workplace bullying. Workplace bullying policies should recognize the role of bystanders as a priority. Awareness about bystanders’ responsibilities and roles should then follow. Bystanders play an important role because they are at ground […]

Quick Answer: Workplace bullying is repeated unreasonable behaviour towards a worker that creates a risk to health and safety. Conflict is a disagreement between people who still hold roughly equal ground. The difference is not how heated it gets, it is repetition, power and risk. Two things surprise most employers. Intention is not part of […]

The New York Times recently published an article about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez where she took to the House floor to read into the Congressional Record a sexist vulgarity that Representative Ted Yoho, a Florida Republican, had used to refer to her. It was reported that Ms Ocasio-Cortez had several others who shared stories where they had […]

Quick Answer: Zero tolerance for workplace bullying is the right instinct and a risky phrase. It signals that the behaviour is not negotiable, which is worth signalling. But it also promises an automatic outcome your process cannot deliver, because the Fair Work Commission treats a zero tolerance policy as a starting point rather than a […]

Bullying doesn’t stop in school. In fact, one might say that some of the most challenging individuals in the workplace have learned bullying from a young age. Remember that kid who used to tease you, push you around or even encourage others not to play with you in the schoolyard? Well, 30 years on, they […]