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Violence/aggression at work policy

This model policy sets out an organisation’s approach to preventing and managing violence and aggression at work, including risks from colleagues and third parties. It helps employers protect employees, respond to incidents appropriately and meet health and safety obligations.

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Stephen Simpson

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Use this model policy to set out your organisation’s approach to protecting and supporting staff who are subjected to violence/aggression at work by a colleague or a third party.

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Updated to cover the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace sexual harassment, in force from 26 October 2024.

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About the author

Stephen Simpson
Stephen Simpson
Principle Editor – Employment Law and Compliance

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

Areas of expertise:

Employment law, Family leave, Discrimination, Redundancy, Unfair dismissal, HR policies, Employment case law

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