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22.01.2022 We're excited to announce that we have joined forces with the team at Whispli to help Australian organisations better understand that trusted conversations are crucial to adopting safer workplace practices, helping them survive and thrive in the new work world order during and post-COVID. The collaboration will kick off with a series of online webinars aimed at supporting organisations to navigate the difficulties they are currently facing and will continue to face in a post-...COVID work world. The webinars will cover the best practice use of Whispli as a compliance tool in conjunction with preventative legal considerations from the Lacey & Co team, offering a holistic approach to creating a culture of safety within workplaces, particularly in a period of dramatic change. The first joint online live event will take place on Thursday 28th of May at 12.00pm, with insights on how and why you’ll want to take your employees’ well-being pulse, whether they’re: WFH; gradually returning to the workplace; or essential workers. Save your seat now, as spots are limited! https://bit.ly/2ThegHd

20.01.2022 We have been working alongside the team at Commerce Ballarat to offer a FREE webinar to the whole business community and wider Ballarat community, about the very important and urgent topic of: ‘Covid-19, Your employees, and the increased risk of family violence during the lockdowns.’ The Word Health Organisation identified violence against women as a pandemic well before COVID-19 hit. Some of you, your employees, colleagues, friends are therefore now responding to two life th...reatening pandemics, simultaneously. Join Elizabeth and Charandev as they provide you with clear, practical, potentially lifesaving information on how to support your employees or colleagues when they need you most, including where and how to seek expert help. This webinar will be held tomorrow on Wednesday 1 April from 10.30am - 11am. For more information and to register visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vXcpxJSkS4y5lA88Mdp8ow Stay safe everyone.

18.01.2022 We're all still on this rollercoaster, and the Lacey & Co. team are very aware of how difficult and confusing it continues to be for everyone. We have a number of services available to help you navigate the hot issues for your organisations in terms of legal risks. So, if you're feeling overwhelmed or confused, give us a call.... https://laceyandco.legal/our-services/

12.01.2022 We've been a little quiet on here lately, but we continue to work to help our clients and community to find a way through how this all impacts for your workplaces and your people. We’re constantly considering what new legal risks & landscapes COVID-19 presents & how to navigate those; we have a number of resources available to help guide your organisation on your legal obligations for employees working from home (WFH), including: - Webinars & on-line courses to help you & yo...ur people to establish expectations & communications within your teams and organisations; - Adaptive leadership L&D, to have systems & frameworks that prevent conflict & interpersonal issues escalating to become legal minefields; - A special webinar on the significantly increased risks of family violence for your employees who are WFH during restrictions, the increased obligations for employers that go with these really serious issues & how to act to ensure safety resources & guides on increased mental health risks for your employers; and - Hygiene Policies & Procedures; & a Reckless Conduct Guide to best support your essential workers when the risks for them, and for you as their employer, are so high. You can read more about this on our blog below. Stay safe everyone.

12.01.2022 Isolation & working from home has stirred a great deal of emotion & an increased sense of connection to place & self within our team; so we thought we'd share a little written & photographic reflection from each of our team members over the next 4 weeks. Our first reflection in the working from home series is from our head of operations & legal research, Morgan Forster. Here’s the view at Forster’s workplace right now. A city girl now living on a farm, she’s always been jea...lous of how close everyone else is to the cafes, shops and bars. Finally, in a time when everyone has to stay home, she has somewhat of an advantage! To stem the rising loneliness that necessarily comes with WFH in isolation, we asked her to give us a snapshot of how staying home during a pandemic is going for her: "Scrolling on Instagram, I saw a post from Words of Women that resonated. It said something along the lines of: deep down, I wished that this would happen. Not this exact scenario, and not the people dying, but I wanted to be forced to stay home, to have spare time that I never had. To actually stop for a minute and have a spell. That was me! I wanted more time to be outdoors and breathe fresh air, not be stuck inside working or studying. I now have that. In terms of where I sit compared to others, I am the person most likely to not be negatively affected by this pandemic: I get to keep my job, not risk my health, but still feel deeply useful. I can afford food, shelter, and ever increasingly expensive toilet paper. I don’t have kids I need to care for and educate on top of everything else. I have dogs who are now loving how much time I’m spending with them, and acres upon acres for me to run or walk with them every morning. I have responsibilities, but they’re not overwhelming. As Margaret Atwood said in the latest podcast of ‘Sugar Calling’ if you have your health and can afford shelter and food, what really is there to worry about? But I am worried about the casual workers and employees who have been stood down, and how they’ll cope. Esther Perel says a good way to gauge a person and how they are is to ask: what have you been thinking about lately? For many right now, there simply can be no other answer than thinking about how they are going to afford next week’s family groceries. And so for me, I’m thinking about consciously spending money on things that will contribute towards a struggling business/industry that might help people to afford the groceries, when they otherwise wouldn’t. This of course is a mere drop in the ocean of what needs to be done, but I’ve got to start somewhere! So after going around the ewes and doing my fabulous job, online shopping is where you’ll find me!"

10.01.2022 Our next reflection in the working from home series is from our head of strategy Janelle Ryan. Working from home isn’t a new concept for me, having run my own business from home for 10 years before moving away from self-employment; however these days we are currently living in; have changed the way I see the world through my window when I sit at my computer each day. Every morning, since the beginning of the COVID-19 restrictions, I have looked out the window from my workspac...e to Nazareth House Aged Care Facility. In the early days of the restrictions, I would see families visiting their loved-ones via the fence, obeying social-distancing rules. Grandkids would pass handmade cards and craft creations through the fence railings, and physical connection although unusual still existed. The past couple of weeks I have opened my curtains and looked across to Nazareth House to see emptiness; stillness and nothingness. No visitors, no laughter; and no connection, just nothing. This, coupled with the horrific news of abandoned nursing homes; filled with deceased elderly people in Europe and the UK; has been one of the most significant reminders for me that our world has changed; and that for some that means absolute loneliness both in living and in death - which is heartbreaking. And while I frantically type emails, hold Zoom conferences, complete assessments for university and consistently serve food to my attention and sustenance starved children; I look across and see nothing, and I begin to wonder what this is like for the elderly people who live 50 metres away from me but are alone. Working from home for many years and in more recent weeks has taught me important practical lessons - the importance of an ergonomically approved space; employer’s obligations to provide safe work from home spaces for employees; and to ensure you have muted your Zoom mic before telling your kids to please get out of their night pyjamas and into their day pyjamas. But it has also created a new awareness in me; an increased empathy. So recently, post their 52nd snack of the day; the kid's craft activity consisted of drawing a picture and writing a message to the people across the road, the residents and the carers. A little something to let them know that while they may feel alone; they are very much in the thoughts of someone not that far away. This is a difficult time for all of us; we will experience the challenges in different ways; but if we take the time to look out our windows, we may just find that in isolation, we can find a new way to truly connect.

07.01.2022 Industrial manslaughter laws come into effect today - are you on top of your obligations as an employer?

06.01.2022 **Please note that the content of the attached recording discusses family violence and abuse and may be sensitive for some viewers. The World Health Organisation identified violence against women as a pandemic well before COVID-19. Some of you, your employees, colleagues, friends are therefore now responding to two life threatening pandemics, simultaneously. Our cross disciplinary team is absolutely dedicated to workplaces being safe, psychologically and physically. Presentl...y, the risks of family violence and abuse are heightened because unprecedented numbers of us are now working from home. We recently collaborated with Commerce Ballarat to offer a webinar on this topic for employers and to offer you clear, practical, potentially lifesaving information on how you can reach help and support employees or colleagues when they need you most, including where and how to seek expert help. If this recording has raised concerns for you please don’t hesitate to call 1800RESPECT on 1800 7377328, Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre on 1800 015 188 or WRISC Family Violence Support in Ballarat on 5333 3666, other specialist services are also listed at the end of our presentation, including McAuley Community Services for Women. For men experiencing abuse or concerned about your own behaviour please contact MensLine Australia on 1300 78 99 78. This article from ABC News may also offer further helpful information: https://www.abc.net.au//family-violence-during-co/12119910 Stay safe everyone.

05.01.2022 We recently had the pleasure of chatting with Steph at SmartCompany about our vision to make all workplaces safe, through our whistleblower disclosure service Anon and our 'Cycle of Prevention'. We also discuss why we recently collaborated with the team at Whispli and the critical need for employers to see whistleblowing as an important opportunity to address serious cultural and safety issues within their workplaces.

03.01.2022 In anticipation of our Principal Elizabeth's fireside chat with Kieran Pender Senior Legal Advisor with the International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy and Research Unit, along with Sunny Jobson and Sylvain Mansotte from Whispli this Thursday, August 6, Elizabeth penned her thoughts on #Metoo, Us Too, the Dyson Heydon findings and how we all need to respond to workplace bullying and sexual harassment. If you're interested to hear more, register to attend this week's fireside chat: https://bit.ly/2Xpe5f4.

02.01.2022 We are all grappling with the new work world we're now in. For many, this means changing expectations in a flexible workplace environment. We thought it prudent to revisit a blog post we wrote last year about setting expectations in the workplace so everyone ‘rows together’ in the same direction, to create a passionate culture where everyone feels like they are part of the organisation’s success. If you would like to find out more about our 'cycle of prevention' and how it could help you navigate the new work world we're in, give us a call on +61 3 911 156 55.

01.01.2022 Happy midweek everyone! Although, if you’re anything like us, it’s getting interesting trying to distinguish what day it is without a quick check of the calendar. Our working from home reflection this week comes from our head of client engagement and process Eve Phyland. I’m lucky enough to be working from home around my beautiful family, who took me back with open arms when I became worried at how often I was talking aloud to myself while working alone from my own home. I...’m one of four children who, at the first rumble of Australian infections, migrated back to the little country town in which we grew up, cheeping like baby birds at Dad until he feeds us nine times a day. My parents live in a sleepy coastal town in south-west Gippsland where a vast majority of houses are weatherboard holiday homes and dogs tend to outnumber people. Coronavirus, however, has transformed my little town. The stress and pressure of inner-city living has seemingly caused a minor exodus and those who can work from home are coming back to their houses in the country; dogs, kids and boogie boards in tow. I see little groups out walking their dogs in the evenings; every one of them keen to give you and your dog a wave from the other side of the road and exchange a cheery how’s it going?. On the streets, entertainment abounds. A few houses have converted their letterboxes into ‘take a book, leave a book’ libraries. One household on the outskirts of town has created a sign inviting passer’s by to go on a bear hunt and has hidden a dozen teddy bears in their front yard; peeping out from behind bushes, nestled in the fork of a tree, for children (or childish adults like me) to delight in pointing out from the road. Other houses have kids’ paintings in the windows, the message: stay strong, stay connected, be kind to one another, we’re in this together. These signs have made a difference to mine and others’ mental health- to know that others are reaching out, trying to connect in a safe way. These little opalescent flashes of community spirit make me proud of this little town that I grew up in and hopeful that the human spirit is equal to the crisis we find ourselves facing.