An example from our book:
Survivors describe having difficulty negotiating reporting because their are multiple avenues - hospital management, doctors’ health services, law, regulatory agencies, educational institutions, and others. Each has their own policies and procedures, but many do not have the information survivors require, which includes answering the following question:
Tertiary health promotion
Tertiary health promotion is about reducing the impact of harm once it has occurred.
How do survivors choose an avenue to report sexual harassment?
Can they discover in available documentation
What is the responsibility and purpose of this organisation/group/discipline?
What is the legislation/ policies they follow, and where might I find them?
What support do they provide?
Who will know what I say?
Will the perpetrator be told of my complaint?
Can I be anonymous? If I am anonymous, what does my report achieve?
What are the potential benefits to me and to others?
What do survivors say about the harms of this process?
What are the costs, in time and money to the survivor?
What are the potential outcomes for the perpetrator?
Why do people drop out of the process?
What are the barriers to reporting?
Can bystanders report?
What is the timeline from report to outcome?
Who is notified when an outcome is reached?
Tertiary health promotion targets:
Improve reporting of sexual harassment
Ensure internal and external reporting processes are clear and understood
Reduce reporting and process barriers
Understand and address barriers
Modify risky environments and improve future safety
Monitoring and managing people and workplaces with high rates of reporting
Report investigation and communicate findings
Analysing the outcomes of reports to improve the processes
Analyse the outcomes of reports to improve the process
Ensure all incidents are reported, recorded and investigated
Analyse critical incidents
Implement root cause analysis processes
Provide rehabilitation
Ensure workers are supported to regain as much function as possible
If you are interested in this health promotion stage, you may wish to read the following chapters of our book:
Foreword: The Shame of Sexual Violence Is Not the Victim’s Burden to Carry
4 A History of Workplace Sexual Harms
8 Health Promotion Strategies to Reduce Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Section 2 - Interdisciplinary perspectives
Section 3 - Learning From International Perspectives
35 Recovery: Rehabilitating the Sense of Self