#IStandForRespect
Our organisation is built on a clear purpose and values that require us to be respectful, responsive, courageous, imaginative and to prioritise relationships - always. These expectations help us create a workplace that has a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment anywhere within the Life Without Barriers community.
We know workplace sexual harassment can have a devastating impact on employees including their health and wellbeing. As Chief Executive of Life Without Barriers, I believe that by showing our commitment to the Diversity Council of Australia’s #IStandForRespect pledge, we are making our position clear and we can encourage other employers to do the same.
Through this pledge, I will continue to take a firm stance against gendered harassment and violence, and as a leader, I will invest in creating and sustaining a workplace that is positive for everyone. At Life Without Barriers, we are crystal clear - we stand against sexual harassment in all its forms and commit to taking action in our organisation to address sexual harassment. We commit unreservedly and wholeheartedly to taking every necessary steps we can to making our workplace safe for all.
#IStandForRespect
Claire Robbs - Chief Executive
Operations Manager
3 年“The world can only change from within.” Eckhart Tolle SPIRITUAL TEACHER, AUTHOR I become aware of my ingrained Prejudice?, Sexism, Racism, Stereotyping, Discrimination and Bigotry. I acknowledge that my acceptance of the statusquo is ‘me’ being responsible for upholding a culture of harassment and violence. I acknowledge that I am responsible for ‘my’ change through my development and education, respect for myself and others, courage to stand for what is right, to develop my imagination and responsiveness. All this self change to be able to have/maintain true and meaningful relationships. I pledge to change me and rolemodel a cultural change that sees men and women as equals free from violence and sexual harassment everywhere in Life Without Barriers and everywhere throughout my life. “Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.’ Eckhart Tolle https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/Submission%20170%20-%20Prof%20P%20McDonald%20and%20Prof%20S%20Charlesworth.pdf
Chief Risk and Assurance Officer at Life without Barriers
3 年Respectfulness is rightfully one of our key values at LWB. It is a simple and powerful guiding light for how we should and must treat each other. It is clear to me that workplace sexual harassment has absolutely no place in a culture that values respect, nor one that strives toward diversity, inclusion and the opportunity for everyone to thrive and bring their best selves to work. We are all the culture at LWB, and if we each commit to confronting gendered harassment we will go a long way to making it stop. As custodians of the culture, we have a responsibility to live up to our commitment to respectfulness, and to draw on our other values of courageousness and responsiveness to call out those who do not. I refuse to accept or allow gendered harassment or violence in any form at LWB. Please join me in making this commitment to a culture of respect with the courage and responsiveness to stand up when it is not upheld.? #IStandForRespect