Work Health and Safety (Sexual and Gender-based Harassment) Code of Practice 2025
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You must consult with your workers and their representatives when identifying the risk of sexual and gender-based harassment at work. This includes consulting on hazards and risks related to the existing work and work environment, as well as risks related to proposed changes to work that affect health and safety.
Consultation should focus broadly on identifying the risk of sexual and gender-based harassment. While past instances of sexual and gender-based harassment can help you to identify when, where and how harassment might occur, consultation to identify this hazard should be broader. Even where sexual and gender-based harassment has not occurred or been formally reported, there may be situations workers encounter as part of their work which make them vulnerable to it. Workers may be more comfortable engaging in consultation focused on the hazard and risk, rather than past instances. A broader focus on the hazard and risk can also help to manage confidentiality and privacy issues.
Your consultation on other psychosocial hazards, particularly other harmful behaviours such as bullying, harassment and discrimination, may also help you to identify risks of sexual and gender-based harassment.