8.3
Traditionally these HSR positions and positions on Work Health and Safety Committees were Union roles, but now non-union representation is growing.
NTEU believes: 8.4 8.5 8.6
Every employee has a right to a healthy and safe work environment, so that everyone can go to work and come home safely. Employees injured at work should not suffer additional disadvantage. HSRs and representatives on Work Health and Safety Committees in the tertiary sector should, where possible, be NTEU representatives.
NTEU will: 8.7
Take steps to regularly and consistently fill vacancies for staff-elected or unionnominated positions on institutions’ Work Health and Safety Committee with NTEU nominees.
8.8
Provide for regular feedback from NTEU nominees on Work Health and Safety Committees to Branch Committees.
8.9
Provide Work Health and Safety training for NTEU staff and officers.
8.10
Take out accident make up pay and/or journeys insurance for members not currently covered, or insufficiently covered, by State legislation or their Enterprise Agreement.
8.11
Establish a standing Work Health and Safety Working Party to develop and maintain comprehensive WHS strategies and training plans in conjunction with Divisions.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT NTEU notes: 8.12
Sexual harassment can be defined as unwelcome sexual behaviour, which could be expected to make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated. It includes sexist harassment and harassment based on sexual preference.
8.13
Sexual harassment can involve one or more incidents. Actions constituting harassment may be physical, verbal or non-verbal.
8.14
Sexual harassment is illegal. Sexual harassment in the workplace constitutes discrimination in employment.
8.15
While most victims of sexual harassment are women, anyone can be a victim of sexual harassment, regardless of their sex and of the sex of the harasser.
8.16
Sexual harassment is a manifestation of power relationships and most often occurs within unequal relationships in the workplace. Factors which contribute to unequal power relationships include insecure employment, the gender pay gap and entrenched workplace cultures.
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