Minister for State Development and Infrastructure, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Racing The Honourable Grace Grace
- New onus on employers to proactively manage workplace sexual harassment
- Employers required to implement written sexual harassment prevention plans
- The new regulations in Work Health and Safety (Sexual Harassment) Amendment Regulation 2024 begin to take effect from September 2024.
Queensland employers will be required to proactively manage the risk of sexual harassment in the workplace from September in a nation-leading regulatory reform.
New regulations will also require employers to implement a written sexual harassment prevention plan to protect workers from early 2025.
The plans must state any identified risks, the control measures being implemented and the consultation undertaken to develop the plan.
The plans need to be easily understood and accessible to workers and contain:
- information on how people can make a complaint;
- how the complaint will be investigated;
- the processes that will be undertaken; and
- how relevant parties will be informed of results.
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