Workplace Compliance System

Rachael Jones: All to Executive Corner expert talks. Today, I’m with Gavin Altus. Gavin is the Managing Director of Sentient. Now Sentrient helps businesses take steps to deliver workplace relations and safety training, policy management and mandatory reporting via their online workplace compliance system. Here at Kalkine, we bring you industry leaders, successful business owners, […]

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 […]

Did you know: 1 in 3 women has experienced sexual harassment in Australian workplaces at some point in their lives. 9% of men in Australia have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment can occur in any workplace. Yet many companies are still not sure how to address training and policy rollout to address […]

If you do not work enough, like 200 to 400 units an hour, you would get written up for the week, and if you get so many write-ups, you lose your job.–Workers at Amazon’s Minnesota Facility Did you know that Amazon Prime Day Sale has been estimated to bring approximately $5.8B in sales? Furthermore, this […]

Ahhh.. Now, that is refreshing. These days, within Australian workplaces, there seems to be far too much workplace COMPLIANCE and far too little COMMON SENSE. What organisations are bucking the trend? The organisations that are bucking the trend are those businesses that regularly appear in the list of The 100 Best Places to Work in […]

For generations, parents, teachers and coaches have used the story of The Three Little Pigs as a way to inspire their children to work hard, make good decisions and ultimately do the right thing. Like all good stories, the implications of not complying are played out to reinforce the learning! So, when the ‘Big Bad Bully’ […]

It is 9.30 am on a Monday morning. Your Human Resource Manager comes into your office with a concerned look on her face. There’s been a report of misconduct at your Christmas Party from last Friday night. The misconduct was of a sexual nature, and word has spread. As a CEO, it’s definitely not the […]

Is Common Sense Enough? One could debate that if our people just used more common sense, then legislative compliance would not need to take up so much time in the workplace. But there’s a glitch in this way of thinking. We are living and working in a global environment where common sense is not always […]

In the Australian business environment, there are still far too many businesses that either do not understand their legal obligations or choose not to meet them when it comes to the provision of compliance training and having suitable workplace policies and procedures in place for things such as bullying, harassment and discrimination. To give you […]

Legacy workplace compliance regimes have tended to deal with risk mitigation from a ‘risk versus cost’ perspective. This has resulted in much time and money being directed at work health and safety from a physical risk perspective. This common sense approach has resulted in safety being regarded as one of the most important considerations in business. […]