Resources
Templates relevant to this policy and procedure
- OHS risk register – to identify, record and manage OHS risks, including work-related violence risks related to student behaviours of concern. Schools may already have their own OHS Risk Register to refer to.
- Risk assessment template – to monitor and control identified hazards using risk management methods.
- Risk management plan – student behaviour (staff login required) – to assist the principal and school staff to define the range of actions that have been identified to ensure staff can safely provide teaching and support to a student whose behaviours may pose a risk to the health, safely and wellbeing of staff, students and others at the school.
- First warning to parents/carers letter template (staff login required) – to send to a parent or carer in response to an incident or correspondence where they have not met expectations to behave respectfully towards staff as reflected in the Respectful Behaviours within the School Community . This letter is intended to prevent the escalation of behaviours in the early stages and should be sent before sending a communication plan or other measures that manage unacceptable behaviour that is ongoing.
- Communications plan sample letter – this template can be tailored by principals or their delegates to set the expected method of respectful communication between the school and the parent/carer. The Complex Matters Support Team or Legal Division can assist in tailoring this to the school’s needs.
Flowcharts and supports
- Work-Related Violence in Schools – OHS risk management flowchart – assists the principal, the school’s Health and Safety Representatives, school staff and the Department to identify their roles and responsibilities through a defined procedure in managing the risks, incidents and emergencies of work-related violence in school settings. This flowchart progresses through the actions with pathways of support and advice.
- Work-Related Violence in Schools – OHS risk management flowchart – accessible version.
- Work-Related Violence in Schools post incident checklist (staff login required) – designed to support the wellbeing impacts of school staff, including principals, assistant principals, teachers, education support staff and others, when they are responding to an incident involving behaviours that are violent, aggressive or otherwise pose a safety risk.
Safety at Work for School Staff communications material
Safety at work toolkits
Use the communications materials contained in these toolkits to raise awareness about the new policy and to promote positive, respectful relationships between adults in our school communities.
- Government schools communications toolkit
- Government schools peak bodies toolkit
- Non-government schools peak bodies toolkit
- Parent organisations toolkit
Safety at work posters
Download and print the parent facing poster for display in settings where parents, carers and adults in the school community frequent. The poster is available in 30+ languages to select from below.
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- Amharic Translated Safety at Work poster – print
- Amharic Translated Safety at Work poster – web
- Arabic Translated Safety at Work poster – print
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- Samoan Translated Safety at Work poster – web
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Safety at work newsletter content
Use these materials to communicate policy and the new parent page to your parents, carers, or your school community.
You will need to add your principal’s name and signature to these Microsoft Word materials.
If you open your file and see boxes replacing the font, it’s because you don’t have that language font on your computer. Fonts have been provided for you below to download when/if needed.
A PDF has been provided of the correct replication on the font if you wish to use as a reference.
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- Amharic Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Arabic Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Assyrian Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Assyrian Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Assyrian Translated Safety at Work newsletter content – fonts
- Chin Hakha Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Dari Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Dinka Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Hindi Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Hindi Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Hindi Translated Safety at Work newsletter content – fonts
- Karen Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Karen Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Karen Translated Safety at Work newsletter content – fonts
- Khmer Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Khmer Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Khmer Translated Safety at Work newsletter content – fonts
- Kiswahili Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Korean Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Macedonian Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Nepali Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Nepali Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Nepali Translated Safety at Work newsletter content – fonts
- Nuer Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Oromo Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Persian Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Punjabi Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Punjabi Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Punjabi Translated Safety at Work newsletter content – fonts
- Samoan Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Simplified Chinese Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Sinhalese Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Somali Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Tagalog Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Tamil Sri Lankan Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Tamil Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Tigrinya Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Tongan Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Traditional Chinese Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Turkish Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Urdu Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
- Vietnamese Translated Safety at Work newsletter content
For an English version of this newsletter content, please view your relevant communications toolkit.
Family engagement resources
Family engagement in learning resource – for parents and carers (staff login required)
Reviewed 19 December 2022