Responding to sexual harassment by patients: A brief guide for general practices
All practices have a responsibility under work health and safety laws to provide a safe working environment for staff, contractors and visitors.
Your practice must ensure, as far as is ‘reasonably practicable’, that people are not put at risk by work carried out as part of the business.
Your practice is therefore obliged to identify, and eliminate or control, risks associated with sexual harassment by patients, as far as is reasonably practicable.
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