IKA BUILDERS INC. is passionately committed to ensuring a positive and professional working environment in which all people are treated with respect and dignity.
We believe in a proactive approach to workplace respect and are committed to providing employees with a healthy and safe workplace, free from physical or psychological bullying, harassment, and violence. A respectful work environment is a place where employees are actively living by our core values.
This policy prohibits all form of bullying, harassment, and violence) hereinafter, referred to as violation of "respect") by management, supervisors, workers, sub-contractors, suppliers, clients, and agents.
Violation of respect will be investigated and if substantiated will be dealt with expeditiously.
To support the objective of providing all employees with a healthy safe workplace, it is required that managers, supervisors, and workers take preventative action to ensure that risks to individual's health and safety due to violations or respect are eliminated and reported.
Bullying - definition of bullying is interpersonal hostility that deliberate, repeated and sufficiently severe as to harm the targeted person's health, safety, or economic status. It is driven by the perpetrator's (bully's) need to control another individual, not by legitimate business need.
Harassment - definition Harassment occurs when a worker is subjected to unwelcome verbal or physical conduct because of:
- Gender Sexual orientation - Source of income
- Religious beliefs - Mental of Physical disability
Family status of that person or any other person
Violence - definition Violence whether at a worksite or related means the threatened, attempted, or actual conduct of a person that causes or is likely to cause physical injury. These acts include threats, menacing or threatening behaviour and all types of physical or verbal assaults.
Employees and workers are encouraged to seek resolution of the incident. Investigations will be conducted with as much confidence as can practicably be afforded. Investigators will advise workers involved or consulted through the course of the investigation that discretion is an important part of the process.