Understand Respect@Work

In June 2018, Australia’s then Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins AO, announced a National Inquiry into workplace sexual harassment. Its aim was to understand the systemic drivers and risks that enable workplace sexual harassment to happen, and identify ways to reduce it. Intersection’s Principal, Natasha de Silva, led the Inquiry.

The ground-breaking Respect@Work National Inquiry Report has led to significant reforms to workplace obligations, including the introduction of a positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment and other related behaviours.

As authors of the Respect@Work Report and the framework that underpins the seven positive duty standards, our understanding of both the intent and practical implementation of these laws is unmatched.

Click on the + to the right to see how we can help your organisation both prevent and address inappropriate behaviour at work.

  • Kate Jenkins AO and Natasha de Silva host Respect@Work Masterclasses for Boards and Executives so your most senior leaders can quickly understand why the positive duty exists and how they can lead on prevention in the workplace.

  • Understand how your employees experience the workplace though an independent review or cultural health check, then build solutions aimed at improvement.

  • iAcademy offers a range of eLearning and in-person courses that are customised to help your organisation enhance engagement and learning. Our courses build capability at the appropriate level — from Boards, Executive Teams and people leaders, through to the whole workforce.

  • Our Safe@Work risk assessment methods and tools can help you:

    • identify and assess the risk of inappropriate workplace behaviours occurring and the impact they may have on the health and safety of those affected, as well as your organisation

    • implement effective and efficient control measures to address the identified risks

    • regularly review your control measures and adjust where required.

  • People leaders need to be equipped with the person-centred and trauma-informed skills to effectively support workers who experience inappropriate behaviour. Visit the iAcademy for details on our courses for people leaders.

  • Responding to disclosures of inappropriate workplace behaviour effectively and sensitively is critical to ensuring trust in reporting systems. Therefore, building the capability of your people leaders to effectively respond to inappropriate workplace behaviour in real time and at the earliest opportunity, is essential to achieving a safe and respectful workplace. Visit the iAcademy for details on our people leader courses. 

    Intersection conducts independent, trauma-informed workplace investigations to resolve sensitive workplace behaviour matters. To speak with us about an investigation in your workplace, contact admin@intersection.work

    We’ve partnered with Rely, a leading workplace case management platform that helps leaders identify risks early, effectively address issues and prevent future incidents. This partnership helps organisations:

    • deploy a compliant, trauma-informed platform

    • enable confidential and anonymous reporting

    • follow leading practice processes

    • access insights. 

    For a warm referral to the Rely team, contact us on admin@intersection.work

  • Workplaces that are safe, respectful, diverse and genuinely inclusive engage in continuous improvement. Organisations must understand and measure the impact of workplace culture initiatives to be certain their practice is both evidence-based and informed by the lived experience of employees. At Intersection, we can help you develop monitoring and evaluation tools to allow your organisation to do this.