Plain Sense Consulting
Workplace Policy Pack
A complete set of fifty workplace policies, written in Word for Australian employers. They are aligned to current Fair Work, NES, WHS and Respect at Work settings, written in plain English, and left clean so you can add your own letterhead and document styling.
AU$199
Instant download. Licensed for one organisation. 7-day money-back guarantee.
What you get
50 editable Word policies for Australian employers. Code of conduct through modern slavery. Fair Work, NES, WHS, Respect at Work, right to disconnect, casual conversion, payday super. Plus the how-to, a policy register, and a staff acknowledgement. Clean files. Add your letterhead.
Week one
Adopt these ten first. Light editing: organisation name, contacts, who signs.
01 Code of Conduct
02 Equal Opportunity
03 Bullying Prevention
04 Respect at Work
07 Grievance
11 Work Health and Safety
12 Psychosocial Hazards
31 Hours and Overtime
32 Right to Disconnect
34 Leave
Mark the rest “not adopted” on the register until you need them.
Who it is for
Owners and office managers without an HR team. Not-for-profits before the next acquittal. Workplaces that just hired their tenth person.
Licence
One organisation. Edit freely for that workplace. Do not resell the pack.
Guarantee
7 days. Open the zip. Edit one policy. If it is not useful, email and the $199 comes back.
Why this pack exists
A lot of small and mid-sized Australian workplaces are still running on a mix of old PDFs, a clause copied from a Facebook group, and a policy that has not been opened since 2017. That can hold for a while. It tends to fall over the day someone raises a grievance, a Fair Work claim arrives, or a new manager asks what you actually do here.
Writing fifty policies from scratch is a month of work most offices cannot spare. Buying them one at a time from a firm costs thousands before anyone has filled in a name. Free templates are often written for another country, out of date, or so dense that nobody on the floor will finish them.
This pack is the middle path: a complete suite in Word, in Australian English, with the same structure in every file. You can buy it this afternoon and start editing tonight.
What you receive
A working suite, not a folder of unrelated files.
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50 Word templates
From code of conduct through to modern slavery. Each file is .docx, A4, black and white, with no logo locked in. Add your letterhead, colours and footer.
02
Written for Australia
Fair Work Act, NES, the Respect at Work positive duty, WHS psychosocial hazards, right to disconnect, casual conversion, wage theft and payday super.
03
How-to, register and acknowledgement
An eleven-step implementation guide, a live policy register so you know what is in force, and a one-page staff acknowledgement.
04
A way to phase it in
You do not switch on fifty policies in a day. The pack tells you the ten to adopt first, then what to bring in over the following quarter.
What sits inside each policy
Every file is built the same way, so people only have to learn the shape once.
Purpose and principles
Why the policy exists, in a paragraph a new starter can finish.
Who it covers
Employees, contractors, volunteers and the board are named, rather than left implied.
The rule, then the steps
The standard first, then what to do on a Tuesday when something goes wrong.
Who does what
A short table of responsibilities for the owner, managers and staff.
Related law
The instruments the policy sits on, so you can see the legal floor.
Document control
Version, owner and review date. The register matches the file.
Start with these ten
The how-to guide walks you through this. Fill in the square brackets, put the files on your letterhead, and take people through them at induction. These ten cover most of the day-to-day risk in an Australian workplace. The other forty wait until you have a reason to turn them on.
Adopt these first. You only need light editing: organisation name, contacts, and who approves what.
- 01 Code of Conduct
- 02 Equal Opportunity and Anti-Discrimination
- 03 Workplace Bullying Prevention
- 04 Respect at Work / Sexual Harassment
- 07 Grievance and Dispute Resolution
- 11 Work Health and Safety
- 12 Psychosocial Hazards
- 31 Hours of Work, Rostering and Overtime
- 32 Right to Disconnect
- 34 Leave
Then bring in pay and super, privacy, ending employment, probation, performance and disciplinary action. Train managers on the five they will actually use: Code of Conduct, Hours and Disconnect, Respect at Work, Grievance, and Discipline.
Use child safety if children are part of the work, motor vehicles if people drive, remote work if people work from home, and modern slavery if you report. Do not leave unused files circulating. Mark them “not adopted” on the register, with a date and a reason.
Who it is for
Owners and office managers who do not have an in-house HR team. Not-for-profits that need a suite in place before the next funding acquittal. Growing businesses that have just hired their tenth person and realised the “we’ll write that later” list is now a risk.
It is not a substitute for advice on a live dispute, an enterprise agreement negotiation, or a set of facts that are already messy. It is the document floor most workplaces should already have had.
It works across industries because the legal floor is national. You delete what does not apply and keep what does. A café and a school will not switch on the same forty policies. They will both need the first ten.
What you are not buying
So the price makes sense.
Not a $4,000 custom suite
A firm will still charge that if you want every clause rewritten for one workplace. This is the starting suite you then make yours.
Not a free template from the internet
Those are often foreign, undated, or written for a listed company. These are Australian, current, and short enough to read aloud.
Not software
They are Word files. You already have Word or Google Docs. There is no login, no subscription, and no portal that dies when you stop paying.
Not a pep talk
No values poster and no 90-slide deck. You get policies, a register, an acknowledgement and a how-to.
What you get
50 editable Word policies for Australian employers. Code of conduct through modern slavery. Fair Work, NES, WHS, Respect at Work, right to disconnect, casual conversion, payday super. Plus the how-to, a policy register, and a staff acknowledgement. Clean files. Add your letterhead.
Week one
Adopt these ten first. Light editing: organisation name, contacts, who signs.
01 Code of Conduct
02 Equal Opportunity
03 Bullying Prevention
04 Respect at Work
07 Grievance
11 Work Health and Safety
12 Psychosocial Hazards
31 Hours and Overtime
32 Right to Disconnect
34 Leave
Mark the rest “not adopted” on the register until you need them.
Who it is for
Owners and office managers without an HR team. Not-for-profits before the next acquittal. Workplaces that just hired their tenth person.
Licence
One organisation. Edit freely for that workplace. Do not resell the pack.
Guarantee
7 days. Open the zip. Edit one policy. If it is not useful, email and the $199 comes back.
What buyers have said
The point was whether they could actually use the files.
“We had three policies and a lot of folklore. I put the first ten through in a week, changed the contacts, and we finally had something to hand a new starter that was not a Google Doc from 2019.”
Office manager · regional NFP · 18 staff
“Plain English is the point. Our board actually read the bullying and Respect at Work ones. That has never happened with anything a lawyer sent us.”
Chair · community health service
“Bought it on a Sunday, and edited Code of Conduct and Leave before Monday standup. The register stopped us having two versions of the same policy on the shared drive.”
Owner · hospitality group · 40 staff
All 50 policies
Adopt what you need. Record what you do not. Keep one register.
money-back
If it is not useful, you get the $199 back
Open the pack, read the how-to, and edit one policy. If you decide it is not going to work for your organisation, email within seven days of purchase and the full amount is refunded. There is no argument about whether you “used” a Word file. You either keep the suite or you do not.
That is the deal because you should not have to gamble $199 on a zip file you cannot see inside before you buy.
Before you buy
Can I put our logo and styling on the files?
Yes. The templates are clean Word files with no logo locked in. Add your letterhead, colours, footer and document-control block.
Does this replace our modern award or enterprise agreement?
No. Policies cannot undercut those instruments or the NES. The how-to tells you to record the covering award or agreement on the register first.
Do I have to use all 50?
No. Start with the ten listed above. Adopt others when the work requires them. Record unused policies as not adopted on the register so old drafts do not float around.
What format do I receive?
A zip of .docx files, plus the how-to guide, the register, and the acknowledgement form. Instant download after payment.
Who can use the licence?
One organisation. Edit freely for that organisation. Do not resell the templates or pass the raw pack to another employer.
What you get
50 editable Word policies for Australian employers. Code of conduct through modern slavery. Fair Work, NES, WHS, Respect at Work, right to disconnect, casual conversion, payday super. Plus the how-to, a policy register, and a staff acknowledgement. Clean files. Add your letterhead.
Week one
Adopt these ten first. Light editing: organisation name, contacts, who signs.
01 Code of Conduct
02 Equal Opportunity
03 Bullying Prevention
04 Respect at Work
07 Grievance
11 Work Health and Safety
12 Psychosocial Hazards
31 Hours and Overtime
32 Right to Disconnect
34 Leave
Mark the rest “not adopted” on the register until you need them.
Who it is for
Owners and office managers without an HR team. Not-for-profits before the next acquittal. Workplaces that just hired their tenth person.
Licence
One organisation. Edit freely for that workplace. Do not resell the pack.
Guarantee
7 days. Open the zip. Edit one policy. If it is not useful, email and the $199 comes back.
The suite
AU$199
Less than one custom policy from a firm. More than a free template you cannot stand behind. You are buying the words, the order, the register, the how-to, and seven days to decide.
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