Workplace harassment is described in the Queensland
Prevention of Workplace Harassment Code of Practice 2004 as follows:
A person is subjected to ‘workplace harassment’ if the person is subjected to repeated behaviour, other than behaviour amounting to sexual harassment, by a person, including the person’s employer or a co-worker or group of co-workers of the person that –
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is unwelcome and unsolicited; and
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the person considers to be offensive, intimidating, humiliating or threatening; and
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a reasonable person would consider to be offensive, humiliating, intimidating or threatening.
‘Workplace harassment’ does not include reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way
by the person’s employer in connection with the person’s employment.
The University of Queensland addresses workplace harassment in the Discrimination and Harassment Policy (section 3) and Staff Grievance Resolution policy. UQ Discrimination and Harassment Contact Officers can provide further information.
Information about occupational violence, with links to legislation and codes of practice, is provided by the Queensland Department of Industrial Relations, Workplace Health and Safety.
Maintaining a harassment-free workplace, Australian Service Commission, contains good practice advice (for reference purposes only).