Workplace Harassment Policies and Information

Meaning of 'workplace harassment'

As defined in the Prevention of Workplace Harassment Advisory Standard 2004:

1. A person is subjected to 'workplace harassment' if the person is subjected to repeated behaviour, other than amounting to sexual harassment, by a person, including the person's employer or a co-worker or group of co-workers of the person that:
   1. is unwelcome and unsolicited; and
   2. the person considers to be offensive, intimidating, humiliating or threatening; and
   3. a reasonable person would consider to be offensive, humiliating, intimidating or threatening.
2. 'Workplace harassment' does not include reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way by the person's employer in connection with the person's employment.
3. In this section - 'sexual harassment' see the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (PDF 785kb), section 119.

Related Pages

• Prevention of Workplace Harassment Advisory Standard 2004
  
• Sexual harassment refer to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, section 119
  
• QUT Grievance resolution policy
  
• Queensland Government Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
  
• QUT Health and safety policy