Risk Assessing Bullying: Manage Workplace Bullying... before it happens

Risk Assessing Bullying, Manage workplace bullying.. before it happens, 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 your team meetings. Just as you might start your meetings with a safety message, you can now include a risk assessment on 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 risk assessment tool (which can be downloaded from the web site www.riskassessingbullying.com.au) to present at the next team meeting, or you may choose an incident for your team to brainstorm; and discuss; explain why the behavior is considered a hazard, a possible response to the behavior, rate the risk, discuss the risk rating, how will the behavior be reported, what workplace policies will be used, what are the possible control measures to reduce the risk and how will the strategies be monitored and evaluated. Risk Assessing Bullying, already gives you the incidents to risk assess, making risk assessment easy. The risk assessment tool is designed for updating by a team member; or your team (as part of the organization’s consultation process with employees on improving health and safety). It is in Word format for easy uploading to your SharePoint site if needed. Empowering people to know what to do when faced with bullying incidents can build confidence; for both individuals and teams. The first three risk assessments in the risk assessment tool are completed and you might use them as a start to discussing how your people might manage the hazard within your organization. There are another 98 to be discussed. 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. This guide is for managers and supervisors to assist their employees when they are completing the risk assessment tool. As your team builds on the risk assessment tool, you may find that changes to your current policies might be needed. Giving staff the opportunity to have input and build on current policies and procedures can empower them to make better choices. It can allow people to take ownership and responsibility for their own health and safety and report incidents that might affect the health and safety of others.