Workplace Policy Pack: 50 workplace policy templates

Pack versus free single templates

Free single templates exist, including from Fair Work and other public sources. They are useful when you only need one form or one policy. This pack is different: one consistent set of 50 policies, written in the same layout, with a policy register and a staff acknowledgement form so you can show what is in force and who was given it.

What’s in each policy

Every policy uses the same layout, so staff know where to look: purpose, who it applies to, the rules, how it works in practice, who is responsible, where to get support, related laws, definitions and review dates. Each one ends with notes on how to tailor it. Most are three to five pages.

What’s inside

• 50 editable Word (.docx) policies, A4, with no branding, supplied in a zip file. Most are three to five pages.
• Every policy uses the same layout (see above), with square brackets for your details
• A 5-page PDF guide with 11 steps for adopting the policies
• A policy register, to record which policies are in force, who owns each one, and when it is due for review
• A one-page staff acknowledgement form

The 50 policies

What each template covers, by topic.

People and conduct (10)

• 01 Code of Conduct. The standard of behaviour you expect from everyone who works with you.
• 02 Equal Opportunity and Anti-Discrimination. How you prevent discrimination, victimisation and vilification, and how you respond if it happens.
• 03 Workplace Bullying Prevention. What bullying is and isn’t, how to prevent it, and how you respond.
• 04 Sexual Harassment Prevention and Respect at Work. How you meet the positive duty to prevent sexual harassment, and how people get help.
• 05 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. How you treat people fairly and remove the barriers that waste talent. It sits beside the equal opportunity policy.
• 06 Domestic and Family Violence Support. Paid family and domestic violence leave, and how you support someone’s safety and privacy.
• 07 Grievance and Dispute Resolution. A clear path for raising a problem at work, and a process managers can follow.
• 08 Whistleblower Protection. How to report serious wrongdoing, and how the people who report it are protected.
• 09 Conflict of Interest. How people identify, declare and manage a conflict so decisions hold up.
• 10 Gifts, Benefits and Hospitality. Where ordinary courtesy ends and a gift starts to look like a favour.

Health and safety (12)

• 11 Work Health and Safety. Your duty to keep workers and others safe, including their psychological health, and workers’ own duties.
• 12 Psychosocial Hazards and Psychological Safety. How you identify psychosocial hazards, consult workers and control the risk.
• 13 Mental Health and Wellbeing. Support, disclosure, time off, and how managers respond when someone is struggling.
• 14 Fatigue Management. How hours are designed, and how people arrive fit for work.
• 15 First Aid. First aid equipment, facilities and trained first aiders that suit the work.
• 16 Emergency Preparedness and Evacuation. How you prepare for fire, medical emergencies, threats, severe weather and power or water failures.
• 17 Incident, Hazard and Near-Miss Reporting. How people report hazards, near misses and incidents, and when you notify a regulator.
• 18 Return to Work and Injury Management. How you support a safe return to work after an injury or illness.
• 19 Workplace Violence and Aggression. How you deal with violence and abuse from customers, the public or other workers.
• 20 Drugs, Alcohol and Impairment. What you expect about alcohol, drugs, medication and other causes of impairment.
• 21 Child Safety and Working with Children. For organisations that work with children or have them on site, based on the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
• 22 Working Alone and Isolated Work. The checks that make sure someone working alone can always get help.

Employment, from hiring to exit (8)

• 23 Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding. How you advertise, choose and start new people consistently.
• 24 Probation. How probation runs. It doesn’t remove the duty to be fair.
• 25 Performance Management and Development. Setting expectations, giving feedback and dealing with ongoing underperformance, kept separate from misconduct.
• 26 Learning and Development. Training people to work safely and well, and supporting further development.
• 27 Disciplinary Action. How you respond to alleged misconduct without rushed or biased decisions.
• 28 Ending Employment. Resignation, dismissal, abandonment of employment, and the exit process.
• 29 Redundancy, Consultation and Redeployment. How you consult, look for redeployment and work out redundancy pay.
• 30 Casual Employment and Conversion. How you engage casual staff and review them under the Closing Loopholes changes.

Hours, leave and pay (7)

• 31 Hours of Work, Rostering and Overtime. How the rules on hours, breaks and rosters in the NES and your award apply day to day.
• 32 Right to Disconnect. Contact outside working hours, and when staff can choose not to respond.
• 33 Flexible Work and Hybrid Working. Flexible work requests under the NES, and everyday hybrid and remote work.
• 34 Leave. How leave works under the NES, your award or agreement, and any extra leave you offer.
• 35 Parental Leave. Unpaid parental leave, the government’s Parental Leave Pay, and how people are treated before and after.
• 36 Attendance and Timekeeping. Being on time, letting people know when you can’t be, and keeping time records.
• 37 Pay, Superannuation and Wage Compliance. How people are paid, and what you do if you find you’ve got it wrong.

Information, technology and property (10)

• 38 Privacy. How you collect, use, store and share personal information about workers and customers.
• 39 Confidentiality and Intellectual Property. How you protect confidential information, and who owns work created in the role.
• 40 Acceptable Use of Technology. How people use your systems, devices, accounts and networks.
• 41 Social Media. Where private posting ends and conduct connected to work begins.
• 42 Workplace Surveillance. What surveillance you use, why you use it, and the rules you follow.
• 43 Information Security and Data Breach Response. Basic security rules, and the steps you take when data leaks.
• 44 Company Property and Equipment. Care, return and personal use of tools, devices, uniforms and keys.
• 45 Motor Vehicles and Driving. Rules for your vehicles, and for personal vehicles used for work.
• 46 Travel and Expenses. How people book travel and claim expenses.
• 47 Record Keeping and Retention. What you keep, for how long, and who can see it.

Consultation and responsibility (3)

• 48 Consultation, Communication and Industrial Relations. Consulting on major change and safety matters, and people’s right to join a union or not.
• 49 Environmental Sustainability. How you cut avoidable environmental harm from your work.
• 50 Modern Slavery and Ethical Supply. How you look at labour risk in what you buy, and what workers should do if they see something.

Who it is for

Australian employers of any size who don’t have an in-house HR team. That includes owners, office managers, and not-for-profits that need a proper set of policies, for example when a funder asks to see them. The templates were written against Australian workplace law as it stood in 2026, including the Fair Work Act and the National Employment Standards (the minimum entitlements every employee gets, such as leave and notice). We supply these policies as templates, not legal advice.

What you’ll be able to do

• Put a complete, readable set of workplace rules in place, without starting from a blank page
• Give staff rules they can read and understand, so they know where they stand
• Show a Fair Work inspector, or a court, the written process your organisation follows
• Record who was given which policies, using the acknowledgement form
• Keep one register of what is in force, and review it every year

Short guides for small employers

Notes on the policies most small workplaces start with:

• Which workplace policies a small business needs
• Working alone
• Psychosocial hazards
• Right to disconnect

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Building a staff handbook? See how to put an employee handbook together from these policies. Need the matching paperwork? The Workplace Forms Pack has 32 forms, or get both in the bundle.

Rather have us tailor policies to how you work? See our policies & procedures service.