Learning Circles: Culturally Safer Terminology
This Learning Circles session focuses on Indigenous culturally safer terminology and the role language and behaviour play in creating culturally and psychologically safer workplaces. You’ll learn practical guidance for respectful terminology, avoiding possessive language, and reflecting on how everyday communication can impact safety and belonging in tourism and hospitality workplaces.
Bullying & Harassment Safety Talk Series – Cyberbullying
The Cyberbullying Safety Talk is part of our Bullying & Harassment Safety Talk series, aiming to offer workplaces a platform for open discussion and collaboration on fostering a safe and respectful environment.
Safety Talk Series – Navigating Challenging Interactions
Interacting with customers and providing great service is a critical part of front-line roles in the tourism and hospitality industry. Interactions are often positive but there can also be times when a front-line employee is faced with a challenging or confrontational situation.
Bullying & Harassment Safety Talk Series – Overview
The Bullying & Harassment Overview Safety Talk is part of our Bullying & Harassment Safety Talk series, aiming to offer workplaces a platform for open discussion and collaboration on fostering a safe and respectful environment.
Bullying & Harassment Safety Talk Series – Policy Discussion
The Bullying & Harassment Policy Discussion Safety Talk is part of our Bullying & Harassment Safety Talk series, aiming to offer workplaces a platform for open discussion and collaboration on fostering a safe and respectful environment.
Creating Safer Workplaces: Empowering Hospitality Businesses in Sexual Harassment Prevention
In the Winter 2023 issue of The Quarterly Pour, Industry Health & Safety Specialist Lonnie Burnett, wrote the article, Creating Safer Spaces: Empowering Hospitality Businesses in Sexual Harassment Prevention.
Click the link below to go to the Winter 2023 Issue of the Quarterly Pour Magazine, or read the article below!
Safer Spaces Toolkit
go2HR has a Safer Spaces holiday toolkit for tourism & hospitality employers and industry leaders.
Safer Spaces course: A Different Perspective
Mikhail is a Summer Communications coop student at go2HR who took the Safer Spaces Worker Training course as a part of his orientation at go2HR. Here’s what Mikhail had to say about his experience with the training.
Safer Spaces Poster
Employers can download and print out this poster about the 4 D’s of Bystander Intervention, and post it on their staff bulletin board and add it to their training.
Safer Spaces Wallet Card
This pocket-sized resource from go2HR empowers workers in BC’s tourism and hospitality industry to recognize and respond to harassment using the 4 D’s of bystander intervention: Direct, Distract, Delegate, and Delay. It provides practical examples for each approach and includes key crisis support contact information. Ideal for onboarding, safety meetings, or keeping on hand in… Continue reading Safer Spaces Wallet Card
Acceptable workplace behaviour (go2HR)
Providing clear expectations about what is acceptable workplace behaviour and what is not will provide clarity to all workers and reduce potential incidents of sexual harassment. It will also help to foster an inclusive, equitable workplace environment where all feel welcome and a sense of belonging.
Disclosure Versus Complaint
This educational handout from go2HR explains the difference between a disclosure (when someone shares an experience or concern) and a formal complaint (which triggers a specific process). It helps employers and employees in BC’s tourism and hospitality sector understand how to respond to each appropriately, whether addressing harassment, misconduct, or workplace safety concerns. Ideal for… Continue reading Disclosure Versus Complaint
Bullying and harassment policy template (WorkSafeBC)
Below is the Bullying and Harassment policy template presented by WorkSafeBC that can be adapted to meet the requirements of individual workplaces.
Code of Conduct (go2HR)
A guide to key components to consider when developing a Code of Conduct.
Workplace harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence prevention policy template (go2HR)
Download and customize this template for your workplace harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence prevention policy.
Safer Spaces: Passing the Baton to You
While the team is immensely proud of the time and energy they have dedicated towards Safer Spaces, they are cognizant that the real test will come when participants move through the finished product and experience for themselves the course’s relevance and impact.
Safer Spaces: Ready for Launch: go2HR Opens Registration for Safer Spaces Training Course
The blog post in our “Safer Spaces” series, “A Sneak Peek at the New Safer Spaces Training Course”, shared a brief overview of an important new training tool designed for the tourism and hospitality industry – Safer Spaces, which is aimed at reducing workplace sexual harassment.
Safer Spaces: Tourism and Hospitality Risk Factors
Safer Spaces is geared towards the tourism and hospitality industry, which is why one of the course modules focuses on unique industry risk factors – for example, the high percentage of new and young workers, as well as seasonal and temporary workers – employed in the industry.
Safer Spaces: A Sneak Peek at the New Safer Spaces Training Course
The most recent blog post in our “Safer Spaces” series gave voice to the project team, who shared their journey of designing, editing and refining the new Safer Spaces online training course, which is aimed at reducing workplace sexual harassment across the tourism and hospitality industry.
Safer Spaces: Transitioning Online
Our latest blog installment picks up as the project team gets ready to put the course online.
Safer Spaces: Designing Industry-Changing Education
The last blog post in our “Safer Spaces” series, discussed the challenges of designing a training program around workplace sexual harassment, including the most overwhelming part – creating the course from scratch.
Safer Spaces: A Sneak Peek at the Development of the Safer Spaces Training Course
Our latest blog installment picks up as the project team is gathering all the elements they need to help guide the development process.
Safer Spaces: Ideating Education around Workplace Sexual Harassment
Our previous blog posts discussed the motivation for go2HR to introduce education and training for the tourism and hospitality industry around workplace sexual harassment. With support from Justice Canada, the organization is navigating an ambitious three-year initiative that aims to help create sexual harassment free workplaces in B.C.’s tourism and hospitality industry. By establishing “safer spaces”, workers feel empowered to report harassment and employers are held accountable for cultivating safe workplaces.
Why are we launching Safer Spaces now?
Sexual harassment is not a new issue, but movements such as Me Too and #BeenRapedNeverReported are encouraging victims to step forward, share their experiences and understand that they are not alone.
Safer Spaces: A Path Towards Reducing Sexual Harassment in Tourism and Hospitality
When we think about workplace sexual harassment, we tend to picture someone in a position of power – usually a man – making regular, ongoing and overt physical advances to a subordinate. And while that scenario does play out in workplaces across North America (just look at the Harvey Weinstein scandal that rocked Hollywood starting in 2017), there are far more subtle, standalone or nuanced incidences, and many more still that are never reported.
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