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Employers are often frustrated when employees fail to raise concerns about a risk before disaster strikes, but it's often the case that the problem is less about their people, than their leadership.

Speak-up cultures are a critical step in employers meeting their positive duty to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate sex discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation, says Rely senior consultant and general counsel Kirsty Harvison.

If employees know their opinion matters to their leaders, they're not just more likely to voice work-related concerns about harassment and other psychosocial hazards, they're also more likely to raise issues before they escalate...