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workers being alone with third parties where there is a risk of harassment (e.g. patients, students, clients or others).
   -            Where workers work in pairs allow them input on who they are paired with (e.g. allow confidential requests not to work with someone where they have concerns about their behaviour).
   -            Provide multiple avenues for ongoing supervision and support for workers, especially new, young and inexperienced workers.
   -            Ensure identified risks, control measures and processes for reporting and responding to instances of sexual and gender-based harassment are widely communicated and regularly reviewed.
   -            Allow workers to refuse or suspend service, where they are able to safely do so, if people fail to comply with the expected standard of behaviour and ban them from future service if necessary.
   -            Establish processes to block or otherwise manage online sexual and gender-based harassment.

     5.5          Design and layout, and environmental conditions, of the workplace
You, as the PCBU, must consider the design and layout, and environmental conditions of the workplace when controlling the risk of sexual and gender-based harassment.
Poor workplace design and layout can increase the risk of sexual and gender-based harassment. It can create the conditions where harassment can occur more easily, be more severe and go unnoticed. For example, workplaces with poor:
   -            visibility (e.g. production lines with long distances between workstations and areas of low visibility)
   -            security and privacy (e.g. workplaces that require workers to change before and after their shifts but do not provide appropriate and secure facilities), and
   -            layout (e.g. layouts that are adequate for those on day shift but provide less visibility of others during afternoon and night shifts with fewer workers).
Workplace design that accounts for the nature of the work and risks involved, including the risk of sexual and gender-based harassment, can help you ensure workers' safety. For example:
   -            Provide visibility and natural surveillance:
     o          ensure factories and warehouses provide for good natural surveillance or install cameras in areas such as stairwells or thoroughfares where workers could become isolated
     o          use clear or semi opaque glass or screens to improve natural surveillance in areas such as offices, storerooms and other segregated areas
     o          provide variable lighting inside vehicles operated at night to ensure the driver can monitor passenger behaviour without reducing their visibility of the road, and
     o          ensure internal and external lighting provides good visibility, including safe entry and exit to the workplace.
   -            Improve security and privacy:
     o          prevent public or unnecessary access to areas workers work in alone or at night (e.g. security fences on construction sites, access via a security card or code, asking guests to leave the room while workers clean)
     o          install electronically controlled doors with