NEW rules mean workplaces must notify the work health and safety regulator, WorkSafe ACT, of sexual incidents that occur at work, from Friday.

To protect the privacy of victims, employers when reporting must not give any information about the identity of a person involved.

Reports made to WorkSafe ACT do not replace or interfere with reporting sexual assaults to the police and any police investigations.

Work Health and Safety Commissioner Jacqueline Agius welcomes the new requirement to report workplace sexual assault incidents to WorkSafe ACT.

“Reporting these serious incidents to WorkSafe ACT provides us with a clear understanding of the priority industries that we need to target with compliance activities,” she says.

“I won’t accept that workplace sexual assault cannot be prevented.”

Further information and a dedicated online reporting tool is available here.