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in the workplace.
   -            Foster a positive and respectful work culture where sexual and gender-based harassment is not tolerated.
   -            Implement policies and strategies to address gender inequality, lack of diversity and power imbalances in the business or undertaking.
   -            Ensure responsible service of alcohol in the workplace or at work-related events and exclude customers who are intoxicated.
Workplace policies on harmful behaviours
A workplace policy addressing harmful behaviours can help set clear expectations about behaviours at the workplace and during work-related activities. It can provide important information for workers, supervisors and managers.
Policies alone are administrative controls which may not be the most effective control measure, particularly when used in isolation. However, a policy can be used to document more effective and reliable control measures and ensure information on your controls and processes is transparent and shared with everyone involved.
You may have a separate policy on sexual and gender-based harassment or one policy which covers several WHS issues (e.g. all harmful behaviours, all psychosocial risks or all WHS risks). You may have a sexual and gender-based harassment policy that focuses only on behaviours and interactions at the workplace, or incorporate these elements into a broader policy on the business or undertaking's risk management process to prevent sexual and gender-based harassment, including the control measures you have in place.
A workplace policy dealing with sexual and gender-based harassment may include:
   -            your duties as the PCBU and the duties of all levels of worker, including managers and supervisors
   -            the process you will follow to manage the risk of sexual and gender-based harassment
   -            definitions of sexual and gender-based harassment, examples of types of behaviours that are not allowed and a clear statement that sexual harassment is unlawful and is unacceptable wherever and whenever it takes place, including from third-parties such as clients, customers, patients, students, services user, visitors and members of the public
   -            workplace standards about behaviours, attitudes and language that disrespects or excludes people based on sex, gender, sexuality or assumptions about gender stereotypes and socially prescribed gender roles
   -            information about online sexual and gender-based harassment and rules about the appropriate use of social media and technology
   -            the possible consequences of breaching the policy and how a breach and any sanction will be determined
   -            what a worker can/should do if they experience or witness sexual or gender-based harassment
   -            information on the options workers have to report sexual and gender-based harassment
   -            the process the organisation will undertake when receiving a report or dealing with a concern, including keeping people safe while the matter is dealt with, options for how a complaint can be addressed and when an external or independent third-party may