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The event is supported by IT freelancer Andrew Taylor, a member of Shout99 and regular contributor to the site. Andrew has actively campaigned for fairness in the work place and stood as a candidate in the last General Election.
Andrew Taylor said: "Bullying at work can cause great distress and long-term suffering to those affected. It is not just employees, contractors can be victims too. My own group, BCAS (Bullying, Conciliation and Advisory Service) is for all contractors who require one to one support for disputes, particualrly contractors in the public sector."
The campaign is calling on organisations to:
- Assess your own workplace and give your employees the chance to learn more about the damaging consequences of bullying at work and why they have a shared responsibility with you to do something about it.
- Use the day to promote your own policy and procedures by providing information centres, distributing copies of your policy and highlighting your own organisational activities to make this behaviour unacceptable.
- Collect data by running an audit to examine its prevalence and effects in your organisation. By doing so, you will be raising awareness of the issue, bringing it more into public eye and gaining a greater understanding of how to prevent it.
- Distribute posters, leaflets, factsheets, wristbands and information packs to define and explain the damaging consequences of workplace bullying.
The campaign claims: "It is easy to think of workplace bullying as a small problem, as something that only happens very rarely to very few people. Perhaps that is because we don't hear about it that often so we just assume it isn't going on. Bullying at work has been a silent disease up till now, but with public attention growing around this insidious behaviour in our workplaces, silence will not be accepted as a response any longer.
"A lack of recognition and acceptance of this very basic human behaviour is the cause of much corporate dysfunction, resulting in costly damage to both individuals and organisations. It makes business sense to recognise that bullying is an issue you need to address. Coming to grips with the problem from all sides, is about awareness, recognition and training."
For more information see: www.banbullyingatwork.com
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Susie Hughes © Shout99.com 2005
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