Ways to get involved
Employees and Employers can help create a respectful and positive workplace by promoting awareness of family violence issues and educating staff about how to deal with family violence while at work.
You can
- Put up family violence prevention posters and displays
- Invite speakers to come and speak to staff – police, refuge advocates
- Post a list of family violence community resources in safe spaces, like bathrooms or staff rooms
- Have a professional development day for management and staff to review policies that deal with family violence and the workplace
- Circulate monthly messages about family violence
- Introduce initiatives to boost employee morale and relieve stress
- Initiatives that strengthen the business as an integral part of the larger community
- Initiatives that build teams based on equality and equity, respect for one another
- Initiatives that highlight the strengths in having ‘diversity and differences’ in the workplace