Human Resources Policies And Procedures Examples

Human resources policies and procedures examples are usually generic, which is why so many adopted sets describe an office nobody works in.

What a set should look like depends on the work. A care or disability provider needs professional boundaries, restrictive practices, incident reporting and safeguarding near the front. A retail or hospitality business needs rostering clarity, young worker supervision, cash handling and customer aggression. A field services business needs lone working, driver safety and site induction. A professional firm needs conduct, conflicts of interest and information handling.

The shared core across all of them is small. Conduct, safety, equal opportunity and harassment, privacy and information handling, and complaints.

Build outward from your own risk assessment rather than from somebody else’s published list of policies.

Safe Work Australia covers risk-based duties. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s HR policy templates and risk management system.