For businesses

If you are a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you must protect workers from bullying, including managing risks and providing necessary information and support.

If you manage or control a workplace, you are responsible for ensuring the physical and mental health and safety of workers. This includes providing the necessary information and support to address bullying. You must also consult with workers on any health and safety issues that could affect them.

Find out how to manage bullying risks in the workplace. 

For workers

Workers including employees, contractors, subcontractors, labour hire employees, outworkers, apprentices or volunteers have a duty to: 

• take reasonable care for their own health and safety while at work 
• take reasonable care to not adversely affect others’ health and safety
• comply with reasonable instructions
• co-operate with reasonable policies and procedures, for example a workplace bullying policy. 

The Dealing with workplace bullying – a worker’s guide will help you to deal with bullying and keep it from happening at your place of work.