Comments on: New Zealand trumps Australia on workplace bullying advice https://safetyatworkblog.com/2014/03/03/new-zealand-trumps-australia-on-workplace-bullying-advice/ Award winning news, commentary and opinion on workplace health and safety Wed, 21 Dec 2016 02:34:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: More books on the Christmas list « SafetyAtWorkBlog https://safetyatworkblog.com/2014/03/03/new-zealand-trumps-australia-on-workplace-bullying-advice/#comment-6037 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 02:34:14 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=12480#comment-6037 […] wrote about New Zealand’s workplace bullying guide in 2014 and said how impressed I was that they had not reproduced Australia’s OHS approach […]

]]> By: Hack https://safetyatworkblog.com/2014/03/03/new-zealand-trumps-australia-on-workplace-bullying-advice/#comment-6036 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:07:36 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=12480#comment-6036 > best practice is a nonsense term

Not so. Normal people generally respond well to the phrase, politicians and lawyers don\’t, particularly in the context of the traffic light of:

green: best or good practice that exceeds minimum compliance
orange: minimum compliance – achieves legal minimum
red: falls below the minimum

lawyers and politicians like to think that orange = green, and will attempt to persuade that this is so.

]]> By: Senator Abetz oversteps on workplace bullying claim « SafetyAtWorkBlog https://safetyatworkblog.com/2014/03/03/new-zealand-trumps-australia-on-workplace-bullying-advice/#comment-6035 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:36:55 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=12480#comment-6035 […] Abetz wants to tackle union intimidation as workplace bullying, he perhaps should look at the new workplace bullying guide from New Zealand which includes “institutional bullying”.  One could argue that the conduct of some […]

]]> By: Sitecert (@sitecert) https://safetyatworkblog.com/2014/03/03/new-zealand-trumps-australia-on-workplace-bullying-advice/#comment-6034 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:11:53 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=12480#comment-6034 Very good article, its interesting how different countries and cultures tackle this issue.
Irelands definition is:

\”repeated inappropriate behaviour, direct or indirect, whether verbal, physical or otherwise, conducted by one or more persons against another or others, at the place of work and/or in the course of employment, which could reasonably be regarded as undermining the individual‘s right to dignity at work.\”

It also states \”An isolated incident of the behaviour described in this definition may be an affront to dignity at work but as a once off incident is not considered to be bullying.

It gives a list of Behaviours that constitute bully and is available here.

http://www.hsa.ie/eng/Topics/Bullying_at_Work/

Kind Regards,

Owen Ferris
sales@sitecert.net

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