The Consent Blueprints

10/08/2022

BTS sneak peak of the studio setup at

With your support we're filming tutorials to help hospo venues create s*xual harassment policy specific to their needs.

28/05/2022

Actions speak louder than words.

If your staff raises an issue, act on it seriously and considerately.

In building processes with your team, take what they have said and use it to inform how issues are addressed.

For example, if bar staff want to implement a rule that stops double-shot drinks being served after 10pm, while this may effect sales, it's important to recognise that the impact of this rule is that your staff feels heard, and you have increased safety and minimised risk for all.

12/05/2022

Talk to your team.

When you begin the process of creating a policy for your venue, engage with your staff.

Those on the tools - from the bar to the kitchen - will be best placed to provide a lens on s*xual harassment (and the when, where and why of it happening).

Engaging with your team can take multiple forms. This can be during an end-of-night group chat, or an anonymous short online survey, and will provide tremendous insight into the occurrence of s*xual harassment at your venue.

You’ll also have a better understanding of what’s important to your team, and what gaps need to be filled to ensure their safety.

05/05/2022

Sexual harassment is an uncomfortable topic and the process of establishing steps to minimise its risk can be uncomfortable too.

Get comfortable feeling awkward so that it doesn’t become a barrier to healthy process.

Recognise that this discomfort is a small price to pay for the far greater, longer-term comfort of knowing your staff, your customers and your venue are safe.

Talk to us today: www.theconsentblueprints.org.au

15/03/2022

Managers of hospitality venues!

You have support available.

Being bound only by the (somewhat-ambiguous and often-times subjective) concept of 'positive duty' means that there are few objective, standardisable and clear guidelines available for managers seeking to protect their staff, customers, and venue from the risks of s*xual harassment.

To get those guides and tools for your venue speak to us today at theconsentblueprints.org.au

01/03/2022

Celebrate with confidence.

Dance floors, nightclubs and late-night service venues have challenges to safety from s*xual harassment that other styles of hospitality may have less of.

When you create steps to keep your staff and customers safety, it's important to consider the unique needs of your venue with regard to managing the risk of s*xual harassment, to make sure everyone has a great night.

The pandemic has forced the hospitality industry to readdress the way people celebrate, work and engage together. Look at the way you have considered the health risks of each aspect of your venue and the management of those risks. Now consider putting similar risk assessment and management measures into place to reduces incidences of s*xual harassment.

Perhaps making a blanket rule not to allow double or triple shot drinks to be served at your venue can go a long way toward minimising s*xualised violence, especially during those early hours of the morning?

23/02/2022

Your staff are not on the menu. Make that clear to everyone.

The language and messaging you use in your venue matters. Regardless of the style of hospitality, putting up information in your venue isn't just about creating resources for people having bad experiences.

Putting up information on s*xual harassment and how your venue responds to it is an important way of reinforcing the message to all of your customers about what behaviour is intolerable and where the boundaries lie.

If you keep your messaging at the entrance, customers are well warned before they have had their first drink.

Think about the places in your venue that are high-risk, and what kind of messaging you can use to minimise the risk of s*xual harassment there.

15/02/2022

You train your staff in service, so train your staff in safety.

Under the Equal Opportunity Act, employers have a 'positive duty' to provide a safe workplace and to take all reasonable steps to prevent s*xual harassment at work.

This means that positive and preventative action should be taken to prevent these behaviours – and not solely in response to a complaint.

There isn't a lot of support available for venues trying to create policy and standard procedures for managing the risk of s*xual harassment at work. Our first Blueprint is a toolkit to help venues make their workplaces safer for everyone, in the context of their venues.

Want the toolkit for your workplace? Speak to us today at theconsentblueprints.org.au

10/02/2022

With 2022 officially here, we figured we’d re-introduce ourselves a little.

The Consent Blueprints are working on a series of informal training packages that can be downloaded and used as tools to help you manage the risk of s*xual harassment in your workplace.

Managing safety in hospitality is difficult. There are multiple reasons that the space is considered high risk, but that doesn’t mean risk can’t be managed. If you’re looking at changing the culture in your work place, or want help to create a policy that suits your venue, you don’t have to do it alone.

Visit theconsentblueprints.org.au for resources today.

31/01/2022

2021 was a challenging year for everyone, and The Consent Blueprints were no different.

We are truly grateful to the generous people who donated to our MyCause campaign to help us create the Blueprints for hospitality and we are 100% committed to our goal.

The goal of creating a set of training manuals and multi-media resources to help understand and define consent, s*xual harassment and identify practical and comprehensive strategies to maintain duty of care of safety to staff and customers in hospitality.

We want to stay transparent with you about what we’re doing with your support.

Over the last few months we have been looking at accreditation, to help people access this information anywhere in Australia and have found that at present this may not be possible.

While we haven’t closed the door on that entirely, we have decided that in order maximise access to our training material, for the time being The Consent Blueprints will be creating training packages that can be accessed by anyone to create safer working environments and manage the risk of s*xual harassment in hospitality.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in our work. To learn more, visit theconsentblueprints.org.au

10/09/2021

A brief look at some of the psycho-social obstacles to standardizing the definition of consent.

The history of consent has been impacted by a series of interconnected imbalances of power. These imbalances skew the narrative[i] (as the…

06/09/2021

A two-day public Women’s Summit will be held from today with more than 300 people invited to attend the two-day summit including PM Scott Morrison, s*x discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner June Oscar and Australian of the Year Grace Tame.

Women's safety advocates, experts, and frontline organisations met virtually last week for consultations with the government on issues including women's health and wellbeing, reducing violence against Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander women and the LGBTQIA+ community, and perpetrator intervention.

Private roundtables were held to develop the next national plan to tackle violence against women and children, ahead of this week’s public Women’s Summit.

A program for the event shows roundtables will include discussions on outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community, migrant women and refugees, women with a disability, regional and remote service delivery, coercive control, perpetrator intervention, technology-facilitated abuse, and health and wellbeing.

Financial security, s*xual violence, safety for older women, Respect@Work and policing and justice responses will also be key topics according to the ABC.

Scott Morrison kicked off the Summit with a speech that has been criticised by Grace Tame for appropriating privately disclosed stories from survivors to leverage his own image.