Managing Work-Related Sexual Harassment Plan 2021–2023

Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, which makes a person feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated. Sexual harassment may be physical, verbal, or non-verbal. 

This plan identifies WorkSafe ACT’s priorities for addressing sexual harassment:

1. Address the gap in knowledge that sexual harassment is a work health and safety issue.
2. Improve data collection and reporting on sexual harassment.
3. Increase WorkSafe ACT’s internal capability to manage psychosocial harm and sexual harassment.

WorkSafe ACT will focus activities on the following groups most at risk of sexual harassment:

• women
• workers under 30 years of age
• workers who identify as LGBTIQA+
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers
• workers with a disability
• workers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• migrant workers or workers holding temporary visas
• people in insecure working arrangements.