Discrimination and Harassment
Every employee at Galvin Engineering has a responsibility to ensure that discrimination, harassment and other inappropriate behaviour does not occur in the work place, including work done off site, at Company on-site and off-site functions (e.g. Christmas Parties, dinners etc), or at any time when wearing company supplied clothing. This includes sexual harassment as well as any harassment be it physical, racial or on age.
Harassment can include the following:
Unnecessary physical contact
Verbal abuse and put-downs
Suggestive and/or unwelcome jokes and comments
Offensive hand and body gestures
Provocative posters and pictures
Staring
Bullying
Intoxicated behaviour
Offensive emails, video or other electronic media
Bullying is defined as "the repeated less favourable treatment of a person by another, or others in the workplace, which may be considered unreasonable and inappropriate workplace practice."
All instances of discrimination and harassment should be reported to your department head immediately, or in the instance that your department head is directly involved, to an alternative impartial senior manager.
Your department head is responsible to ensure that all complaints are treated confidentially and are thoroughly investigated, and if warranted, to ensure that appropriate action is taken to stop future incidents occurring.
A valid complaint of harassment is viewed very seriously by Galvin Engineering and will not be tolerated under any circumstances. In certain circumstances, the severity of the complaint will lead to disciplinary action against the offender, and may even result in dismissal.