
Our 36pg Guidelines Booklet
Ensure your workplace is safe and supportive for employees experiencing domestic violence
These Guidelines will help employers achieve the goals of a DVFREE workplace:
- Employees impacted by domestic violence feel safe and supported at work
- Domestic violence is not tolerated or excused; the workplace promotes and supports respectful behaviour within domestic/family relationships
- All employees know what to do if a work colleague is experiencing or perpetrating domestic violence
- A best practice workplace response to domestic violence exceeds legal obligations under the Domestic Violence – Victims Protection Act 2018 and other laws
Our 36-page Guidelines booklet provides detailed guidance with background information and specific suggestions to help employers
The Guidelines ‘essential’ recommendations form the basis of the criteria for the DVFREE Tick employer accreditation.
Guidelines content includes:
- First Responders – the role, recruitment, training, ongoing support
- Appropriate terminology and language
- Policy purpose
- Principle of non-discrimination
- Defining domestic/family violence
- Confidentiality
- Informing staff about help-seeking pathways
- Workplace safety planning
- Domestic/family violence leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Accessing specialist community support
- The role of EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
- Economic abuse prevention
- Working from home safety considerations
- Performance and discipline issues
- Consequences for employees perpetrating work-related domestic violence
- Support for employees using harmful behaviour to change
- Response to health & safety incidents involving domestic/family violence
- Training your managers
- Staff education and awareness raising
- How to help a co-worker experiencing domestic/family violence
- Beyond the workplace
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