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Workplace violence is a serious hazard that many CUPE members face every day. The purpose of the kit is to provide members with resources to help protect them against violence and harassment in the workplace. Far too often, employers develop policies and procedures that only react to violence and harassment. This approach is not good enough. CUPE’s new kit focuses primarily on preventing violence and harassment in the workplace before it happens.
The kit is available for order to CUPE locals or can be downloaded here:
- Guideline: Preventing violence and harassment in the workplace
- Fact Sheet: Working alone
- Violence and harassment legislation in Canada by jurisdiction
- Checklist: Sample violence hazard assessment/inspection
- CUPE’s Code of Conduct
- CUPE’s Equality Statement
- Violent Incident Report
- Checklist: Response to a violent incident
- Bargaining Guide: Domestic violence in the workplace
- Guideline: Stop harassment: a guide for CUPE locals
- Workplace harassment and mental injuries: examining root causes
- Fact Sheet: What is the duty to accommodate?
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Resources
Health and safety fact sheets
These fact sheets can be downloaded as PDF documents or shared online.
The Canary
CUPE Equality has several new resources on harassment
Stop harassment: A guide for CUPE locals is a 14-page kit for local union stewards, officers and other activists. The pamphlet Speak out! Stop harassment is for members who have experienced or witnessed harassment, or who want to organize on the issue. A new research paper, Workplace Harassment and Mental Injuries: Examining Root Causes, shows that harassment is a leading cause of stress and mental injury.