Workplaces Against Violence in Employment

WAVE

Training to help workplaces effectively address Workplace bullying; harassment; conflict at work and dysfunctional workplace cultures.

Business in Mind: Managing stress 

Beyond Blue & Partners

Information for SME looking at prolonged or excessive job stress find how to improving your coping skills.

Stamping out bullying

EEO Trust

Workplace bullying is highly damaging to New Zealand and its organisations, says Professor Tim Bentley. He explains why it is so important to manage bullying at work, and discusses the new government guidelines which, he says, will provide some much-needed leadership.

Stress and Fatigue: Their impact on health and safety in the Workplace

Occupational Safety and Health Service of the Department of Labour

This document is for occupational safety and health professionals in medical, safety, ergonomics and managerial roles. It provides a scientific overview of the various theories of stress and fatigue. It will allow reasonable and practical advice to be given to employers and employees and is accompanied by shorter, more practical documents that give useable 'rules of thumb'. This publication remains current as a scientific summary of stress and fatigue.

Stress - Fact sheet 

Occupational Safety and Health Service of the Department of Labour

Fact sheets on stress and the The Health and Safety in Employment Act.

Stress and fatigue - Advice for employers and employees on reducing the impact of stress and fatigue

Occupational Safety and Health Service of the Department of Labour

This pamphlet discusses stress and fatigue using the simple 'bucket model'. It discusses the many points at which interventions can occur to prevent stress and fatigue, such as making work congenial, organising work appropriately, managing people considerately, and promoting health and fitness. It also describes methods of assessing fatigue in the workplace.

Bullying - Flowchart - Am I being bullied?

Worksafe New Zealand

You don’t like what’s happening at work, but is it bullying? Work your way through this flowchart to decide whether it is bullying and what you can do about it. If it isn’t bullying it might be some other undesirable behaviour that you can still do something about.

Flowchart - What can I do about being bullied? 

Worksafe New Zealand

If you’ve decided it is bullying, this tool takes you through the various options you could try to respond to the situation. Options include low key solutions, talking to a support person, and seeking expert advice. If none of these work, or aren’t appropriate, you could try lodging a complaint with your company, seeking mediation or lodging a report with WorkSafe NZ.

Bullying - Preventing and responding to workplace bullying

Worksafe New Zealand

This best practice guideline gives options and examples of how to prevent and respond to workplace bullying.

Bullying prevention tools

Worksafe New Zealand

The Preventing and responding to workplace bullying guidelines are supported by a range of online tools that you can access from this page. Most of the tools will allow you to print out a report.

Healthy work assessment tool - Confirming positive aspects of work

Worksafe New Zealand

The Healthy work assessment tool - Confirming positive aspects of work - provides ways of assessing the ‘healthiness’ of work.

Healthy work assessment tool - Identifying stressful aspects of work

Worksafe New Zealand

The Healthy work assessment tool - Identifying stressful aspects of work - provides ways of assessing the 'unhealthiness' of work.

Reacting to reports of work-related stress in the workplace 

Worksafe New Zealand

This section outlines a method for dealing with reports of workplace stress.

Sample brief stress questionnaire

Worksafe New Zealand

Sample questionnaire on stress.

Morale, distress and healthy work

Worksafe New Zealand

Morale, distress and healthy work is a summary factsheet about morale and challenge, distress and threat, and what healthy work looks like. This section also contains some useful tools and further information.

Bullying - Preventing and responding to workplace bullying

Worksafe New Zealand

This best practice guideline gives options and examples of how to prevent and respond to workplace bullying.