Women’s Workplace Safety: Resources for employees

Understanding workplace sexual harassment is a key first step in primary prevention and appropriately responding to workplace sexual harassment. Start with understanding workplace sexual harassment - this will give you a good foundation on which to build preventative and response strategies for the future. 

• What is workplace sexual harassment?

• Understanding workplace sexual harassment | Respect@Work

• Information sheet - Gendered violence: Sexual harassment

• Information sheet - Gendered violence: Sexual assault

• The impacts of workplace sexual harassment

Everyone has a role in preventing sexual harassment.

While prevention efforts should be led by organisational leaders, all workers can take action to prevent sexual harassment from occurring in their workplace. For example, you can build your knowledge of workplace sexual harassment to make sure that you understand your rights and responsibilities in the workplace and, you can support a positive and respectful workplace culture.

• Preventing workplace sexual harassment | Respect@Work

There are a number of campaigns advocating for respectful and equal workplaces that have resources you can use at your workplace.

• Stop it at the Start,

• Call it out 

• Our Watch campaign, Doing nothing does harm

How do you, as an individual, respond to workplace sexual harassment?

• What can you do if you are sexually harassed at work?

• Responding to workplace sexual harassment

• Know your rights and responsibilities

• Supporting friends and co-workers who have been sexually harassed

• Stop bullying and sexual harassment orders

• Food delivery workers - be safe while riding

• What is workers' compensation?

• Aggression in the workplace

• Aggression in the workplace - Response

• Aggression in the workplace - Toolkits and information resources

• Work-related stress and bullying resources

The Respect@Work website contains information about workplace sexual harassment for younger workers.

• Visit the Respect@Work website

For information on how to make a complaint about workplace bullying, aggression, discrimination and sexual harassment, see our How to make a complaint page.