Workplace Health and Safety Library
Safe Work Australia
Dealing with workplace bullying – a worker’s guide provides information for employees who believe they are experiencing or witnessing workplace bullying and those who have had a bullying complaint made against them.
Guide for preventing and responding to workplace bullying is for employers and managers. The guide provides advice on how to manage the risks of workplace bullying as part of meeting their duties under work health and safety legislation.
Workplace violence and aggression – advice for workers information sheet provides advice for workers about duties under the model work health and safety (WHS) laws and what to do if workers experience workplace violence or aggression.
Comcare
Comcare resource kit can assist workplaces in preventing workplace bullying. The kit includes a pocket guide and a two-minute talk script for managers.
Australian Human Rights Commission
Advice on violence, harassment and bullying.
Working together: Promoting mental health and wellbeing at work – is a publication prepared jointly by Comcare and the Australian Public Service Commission. As it was developed primarily for the APS, it refers to some aspects of the employee lifecycle that operate differently in the MOP(S) Act employment environment.
For specific advice on MOP(S) Act employment, tailored to the particular circumstances of a Senator or Member’s office, contact the WHS team (1800 747 977) (option 3) or email us.
Comcare resources
Safe Work Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission
Beyond Blue
- Head to Health from the Department of Health provides information, resources and services to support wellbeing.
- MoodGYM is an interactive web program developed by the Australian National University, designed to prevent depression.
- MindSpot is an online assessment and treatment funded by the Department of Health and developed by Macquarie University. Treatment courses cover wellbeing and managing symptoms of depression and anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
- e-couch is a self-help interactive program developed by the Australian National University on depression, generalised anxiety and worry, social anxiety, relationship breakdown, and loss and grief.
- myCompass developed by the Black Dog Institute with support from the Department of Health, which includes interactive modules, and aims to help users manage moods associated with stress, anxiety and depression.
The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider offers a range of wellbeing tip sheets including:
A guide to becoming your best you
- SUICIDE, the forever decision by Dr. Paul G. Quinnett.
- Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467
SANE Australia fact sheets:
- Police Assistance Line: 131 444
- Lifeline: 13 11 14
- Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636
- Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467