Workplace Compliance Training

Compliance training is a tool that helps businesses ensure their employees know the regulatory requirements within the workplace. It is the process of educating your employees on the laws, regulations, and company policies that they must comply with during their day-to-day job responsibilities. Why do you need a good compliance training program for new employees? […]

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 […]

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 […]

Workplace bullying is one of the most time-consuming and complex issues to resolve in any workplace. There is often mixed opinion on what is bullying and what is not bullying, and it can occur from the top down or the bottom up. Those who have been involved in HR for some time and have had […]

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 […]

There is a common theme across this workplace compliance series the best organisations have a robust workplace compliance system in place. One that educates their staff and delivers policies and procedures to help people know what to do if there is a fair work, privacy or health and safety incident in the workplace. Education is […]

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 […]

Perhaps the BIGGEST mistake of all… It is having senior managers and executives within an organisation that give ‘lip service’ to appropriate conduct in the workplace. It is the silent killer of your workplace culture! Let’s first explore the definition of lip service… Lip service: NOUN, support or agreement that does not appear to be […]

Workplace compliance goes well beyond just training your staff. Many organisations make an effort to educate their people on things such as health and safety, privacy, bullying, sexual harassment, and discrimination. However, most do not back it up with appropriate workplace policies and procedures to guide their people in the event of a workplace incident. This […]

I’ve never come across an ‘insurance policy’ for workplace compliance. That’s because the only protection is, in fact, having a robust workplace compliance regime in place for your organisation, regardless of your size. The blind spot for many Australian businesses Some of Australia’s largest organisations implement highly sophisticated and expensive workplace compliance systems, only to […]