Risk Assessing Bullying: Manage Workplace Bullying... Before it Happens

Risk Assessing Bullying, is a guide for managers and supervisors to use with their work teams to discuss risk assessment of bullying, or, incidents which could lead to workplace bullying; as part of their team meetings. Just as you might start your meetings with a safety message, you can now include a risk assessment for bullying. It might be, you delegate someone within your team to risk assess a bullying incident (or an unreasonable behavior which could escalate into bullying) from the book to present at the next team meeting, or you may choose an incident for your team to brainstorm; discuss the hazard, explain why the behavior is considered a hazard, a possible response to the behavior, rate the risk to health and safety, discuss the risk rating, talk about how the behavior will be reported and what workplace policies could be used, what are the possible control measures to reduce the risk and how will the introduced strategies be monitored and evaluated. Risk Assessing Bullying already gives you the incidents to risk assess; making risk assessment easy. Empowering people to know what to do when faced with bullying incidents can build confidence for both individuals and teams. Example responses to the negative behaviors are completed for all 101 examples. Risk Assessing Bullying, Manage workplace bullying before it happens, focuses on assessing negative workplace behaviors which could happen in any work environment. The benefit to having predetermined situations allows participants to evaluate what workplace procedures should be used.