Anti-Discrimination and Psychosocial Hazards Seminars

A major source of conflict in the workplace can sometimes be diversity of opinion which may come from diversity in experience, background, origin etc.

It is recommended that organisations provide refresher training annually to their employees on discrimination and psychosocial hazards.

These seminars can be customised for your workplace and can be conducted face to face or online.

Anti-Discrimination Seminar

These seminars provide education around the categories for unlawful discrimination and how to mitigate or eliminate occurrences.

Unlawful workplace discrimination can occur against an employee or prospective employee because of one or more of the following attributes:

• race

• colour

• sex

• sexual orientation

• breastfeeding

• gender identity

• intersex status

• age

• physical or mental disability

• marital status

• family or carer’s responsibilities

• pregnancy

• religion

• political opinion

• national extraction

• social origin

• experiencing (or having experienced) family and domestic violence.

Psychosocial Hazards Seminar

These seminars provide education around psychosocial hazards and how to mitigate or eliminate them.

A psychosocial hazard is anything that could cause psychological harm (e.g. harm someone’s mental health). Common psychosocial hazards in the workplace include: 

• job demands

• low job control

• poor support 

• lack of role clarity

• poor organisational change management

• inadequate reward and recognition

• poor organisational justice

• traumatic events or material

• remote or isolated work 

• poor physical environment 

• violence and aggression 

• bullying 

• harassment, including sexual and gender-based harassment, and

• conflict or poor workplace relationships and interactions