Building safe and respectful workplaces.
Independent Reviews
Intersection is a boutique consulting firm with deep expertise in transforming organisational culture to ensure safety and respect in the workplace.
Conduct of an independent review demonstrates leadership and recognises that you can’t change what you don’t know. With significant under-reporting of inappropriate behaviours a known feature of workplaces, a review is an examination of the systemic issues and barriers preventing safe and respectful workplaces.
Our workplace reviews seek to understand the drivers and risks of inappropriate workplace behaviours and develop practical evidenced-based solutions to both prevent, and better respond to, incidents of sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination and other inappropriate behaviours.
We take a strengths-based and consultative approach to reviews, targeting the specific methodology applied to each individual organisation. Our practice is trauma-informed, prioritising the well-being of workplace participants at all times.
The team at Intersection are able to quickly and deeply understand your unique organisational context and culture, and through our review process, assist your organisation to be the thriving and safe environment that attracts and retains the best talent.
Complaint handling mechanisms reviews
Responding to disclosures of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination effectively and sensitively is critical to developing and maintaining trust in reporting systems. Ensuring accountability for inappropriate behaviour is also a key prevention mechanism. Intersection can provide advice on and assess the policy and procedures underpinning your reporting mechanisms to ensure they reflect trauma-informed, victim-centred leading practice.
Bullying, harassment and discrimination training reviews
Where workplaces have developed training materials and programs in order to prevent sexual harassment and other inappropriate workplace behaviours, Intersection is able to assess these against current leading practice and provide advice on enhancements or modifications to ensure that your training programs are effective as they can be.
Cultural Health Checks
Maintaining a healthy and safe workplace culture requires constant vigilance. The majority of workplaces undertake numerous activities to nurture a positive workplace culture.
Recognising that not all organisations will require an in-depth review, Intersection can conduct a cultural health check to understand the impact of initiatives undertaken in your workplace and identify any areas for future focus and work.
Diversity. Equality. Genuine Inclusion.
Workplaces that are diverse and inclusive maximise outcomes, performance and capability.
Intersection assists organisations to accelerate diversity and equality goals to develop workplaces that are truly inclusive for all.
Our expertise and services include:
Determining the extent of any gender pay gap and identifying the structural factors that contribute to it.
Conduct of diversity and inclusion audits to understand how diverse your workplace is and assess your team’s sense of belonging and inclusion.
Review and/or development of workplace policies relating to diversity and inclusion consistent with leading practice, discrimination laws and Fair Work obligations.
Specialised workforce engagements where issues of sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism require a sensitive and expert response.
Policy review and development
With expertise in state and federal anti-discrimination legal frameworks, modern slavery laws and work health and safety laws, Intersection is able to review your internal policies in these areas or assist with the development of new policy to reflect the most effective coverage.
Additionally, with our deep expertise in Respect@Work, we are able to provide advice on how best to prepare for the introduction of a federal positive duty to prevent sexual harassment in your workplace.
Human rights-based approaches
Modern slavery laws in Australia now require all businesses with an annual consolidated revenue of $100 million to report annually. Regardless of the size of your organisation, there is much to be gained by taking a human rights based approach to your operations.
Intersection can assist with your modern slavery reporting, undertaking due diligence and risk saliency of your operations and human rights policy review and/or development. We can also provide advice on best practice grievance mechanisms and providing remedy.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Workplaces that are safe, respectful, diverse and genuinely inclusive are ones that engage in continuous improvement.
Understanding and measuring the impact of workplace culture initiatives will ensure that your practice is evidenced based and informed by the loved experience of your employees.
Intersection can develop monitoring and evaluation tools to help your organisation learn from its actions and to continuously improve.