Page 5865 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 7 December 2011
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(1) notes:
(a) the ACT Public Service accident and incident reporting system indicates that around 1 600 government workers have reported being verbally or physically attacked, bullied or harassed by members of the public or other ACTPS staff in the 20 months until September 2011, which represents a rate of 4.8 incidents per 100 workers over a 12 month period;
(b) the 2010-2011 ACT Policing annual report records there were 2 916 reports of “offences against the person” in the total ACT population, which represents a rate of 0.8 incidents per 100 citizens over a 12 month period;
(c) that based on a comparison of parts (a) and (b) there is disproportionate number of government workers being physically attacked, bullied or harassed; and
(d) that the Justice and Community Safety Guide to Framing Offences states, at pages 34-35, that:
(i) there are other industries and professions, in addition to the public service, that experience assault; and
(ii) preventing assaults or other anti-social behaviour at an industry or professional level is a far more effective strategy than focussing on the offences and the penalties attached to those offences; and
(2) calls on the ACT Government to:
(a) release the reported incident data by the close of business on Thursday, 8 December 2011; and
(b) report to the Assembly by the last sitting day in February 2012 on:
(i) the assault and bullying data it has collected by industry and profession over 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011;
(ii) the assault and bullying data it has collected by government directorate for the three years 2008-2009, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011;
(iii) the assault and bullying prevention strategies it has developed in response to the reported annual data, both in the public and private sectors;
(iv) the activities and programs it already has in place to promulgate the assault and bullying prevention strategies through industry, the professions and the Government; and
(v) what other strategies the Government may be considering to address workplace bullying.”.
There is one change to the amendment that was circulated previously—instead of just the word “members”, we have inserted the words “of the public”, as it looked like members were bullying ACT public servants.
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