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Engaging Your Resources
As a bystander, recording microaggressions, prejudice, harassment, or violence might be useful. You can use your resources, such as a phone, tablet, laptop, or notepad, to capture what is happening.
Making Use of your Resources to Document Harassment
When should you engage your resources as a bystander? Documenting microaggressions, discrimination, harassment, or violence as a bystander can be a helpful tool. If other people are already engaging the perpetrator, or if engaging the perpetrator or the target seems unsafe, that’s when you can engage your resources – like a phone, tablet, laptop, or notepad – to document what’s happening.
Verify the consent laws around recording in your area
If you choose to engage your resources, you should be aware of your local laws. In some areas, it’s unlawful to video or audio record people without their explicit consent. If video or audio recording isn’t an option for you, you can also take notes about what’s happening, writing down the behaviors you’re witnessing and making sure to document the date, time, and location of the incident.
Options for Documenting or Recording as a Bystander
If you decide to document a situation as a bystander, you may have several options to choose from.
How to be an active bystander
The final type is engaging your resources by using a phone, tablet, laptop, notepad, or other devices to document what's happening via a recording or taking notes. However, keep in mind that in some states, the video or audio recording of someone without their permission is illegal.
Document by taking notes
Another option is to take notes about what's happening. If you don't have any paper handy, you can take notes on a smartphone app or send messages to yourself describing the situation.
Know your local laws
If you want to use a phone or camera to record what's happening, be sure that you know your local laws. In some places, taking pictures, video, or audio without someone's explicit consent is unlawful.
What is Consent?
Consent
Consent is an agreement or permission given by someone to do something or to allow something to happen. It is an active, clear, and voluntary agreement to engage in a particular activity or to allow someone to do something.
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Options for engaging resources as a Bystander
When it comes to maintaining a professional workplace environment, the role of the bystander is important. Bystanders have the ability to observe, recognize and report any inappropriate behaviors that occur in the workplace.. Here are some best practices for engaging resources as a bystander:
- Document any microaggressions, discrimination, harassment, or violence that you witness.
- Offer support to the victim
- Screenshots of any emails, texts, or other communication
- Document any conversations or incidents in writing
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Teaching Employees to Engage their resources
This chapter outlines the ways that employees can engage their resources, and why it can be useful to record microaggressions, bias, harassment, or violence. By providing employees with options for engaging their resources as a bystander in the workplace, employers can help make their company culture safer.
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The Most Comprehensive Bystander intervention Training Solution
EasyLlama’s online training course helps prepare employees to navigate bystander intervention. The course guide learners how to appropriately confront harassment, discrimination, and microaggressions in the workplace. The course covers:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Bystander Intervention
Chapter 2: What is Bystander Intervention?
Chapter 3: Types of Bystander Intervention
Chapter 4: Engaging Your Resources
Chapter 5: Engaging Other Bystanders
Chapter 6: Engaging the Target
Chapter 7: Engaging the Perpetrator
Chapter 8: De-Escalation
Chapter 9: Conclusion
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