“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
She contacted my nominated psychologist again! The harassment, privacy invasion, badgering and gaslighting was relentless. The PCBU was in breach of a medical certificate of capacity where there was now a legal requirement for psychological guarding against this person.
The harassment was intentional to prolong poor health and repeated fear and distress for my safety. I sent distress signals at these times for someone to save me and to stop the harassment, bullying and gaslighting. The illegal adverse action was extreme. I was not left alone to heal, to recover and to feel safe. I couldn’t take it anymore.
I now had psychological guarding on an updated certificate of capacity, which LEGALLY REQUIRED her to STAY AWAY from me IN ANY ENVIRONMENT.
THE PCBU must seriously think they are above the law to continue to be so reckless and harmful. It was incident after incident of harassment, gaslighting and distress as diabolical adverse action, ironically, for requesting some agreed boundaries for a SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT!
On 12 October 2020, I forward the email from Rena Christmann to the WHS & Wellbeing manager.
Here’s what I wrote:
“Can you please call me tomorrow.
I told you I have psychological guarding on my certificate of capacity regarding this individual. She is to leave me alone and STOP bullying me...
What are you doing to ensure my safety…? Bullying by any staff at [the university] is unacceptable. I am distressed again. Enough. I am speaking with the SafeWork consultant tomorrow. Make the bullying and harassment stop NOW.
VICKI”
No phone call. No safety from the WHS & Wellbeing manager. Nothing.
But as we now know, to quote the SafeWork NSW inspector, “I’m not here to play he said she said”.
The repeated WHS violations were distressing and surreal. But good luck getting protection and safety from SafeWork NSW.
That trauma and gross negligence was worse because they are the regulator. They run campaigns ad nauseum, that have workers and key public stakeholders believe and trust that they take such WHS violations being reported to them, seriously. I’ve never felt so degraded, disrespected, insulted, harmed, bullied and belittled as I did by SafeWork NSW. I was extremely frightened and vulnerable due to the serious nature of psychological violence authorised to occur within the PCBU.
See the post Enter unSafeWork NSW & “that” RTW plan I drafted - October 2020 - http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/08/enter-unsafework-nsw-that-rtw-plan-i.html. The post includes a screen shot of the updated certificate of capacity that records psychological guarding from the national manager of employment relations and safety - HR Direcorate. Dated 8 October 2020! So what the hell was I meant to do to be protected and guarded by offenders in a PCBU who think they are above the law?
A PCBU has a legal obligation to ensure compliance of WHS laws and regulations!
Why did the regulators (both SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW) allow this to happen and chose to target the compliant employee, the victim of WHS violations and workers compensation fraud, instead? WHY?
Prior to the updated certificate of capacity with psychological guarding recorded, Rena Christmann informed the SafeWork NSW inspector that industrial relations is separate from workers compensation, to justify yet another IME, after only three months from the one full of innuendos (the one on 23 July 2020, under workers compensation “process” for CCI). See http://mystory-myvoice.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-doctor-full-of-innuendo-lies-and.html.
The national manager of employment relations and SAFETY was desperate to achieve her illegal goal, in attempt to write me off, in suspected collusion with another paid unethical “practitioner” to do so.
But so many were colluding: the RTW coordinator, WHS and Wellbeing manager, the NTEU including the branch president, the senior claims specialist and Catholic Church Insurance generally, and in time, SIRA NSW, and my local state MP.
I also proved the NSW police don’t care and ultimately victim blame, the registrar at the local court was dismissive of my APVO application as per advice from the police, fobbing me back to the Fair Work Ombudsman who were the ones who advised that I go to the police in the first place. WOW.
This entire thriller nightmare, also proves that the massive lack of cohesion between industrial relations / employment law and workers compensation law is a big loophole that allows such perpetrators to exploit and abuse, in serious adverse action.
In time, I wasn’t just a ping pong ball between SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW, the employment and workers compensation lawyers started treating me like a ping pong ball too. ENOUGH.
All because a SafeWork NSW inspector was not there to play he said she said, and because the NTEU sacrificed me and my legal workplace rights as part of enterprise bargaining negotiations.
I feel sick at the unconscionable conduct of so many people.
On 26 October 2020, in a consultation with my nominated treating psychologist, it became clear to us that Rena Christmann made contact without my consent. I provided a copy of the updated Certificate of Capacity that had a note of “psychological guarding, national manager, employment relations and safety - HR Directorate”.
But the NSW regulators allow this psychological terrorism and workers compensation fraud from some key stakeholders, to happen! For how long SafeWork NSW and SIRA NSW?!
This post is based on document 116.
Reading
Given how serious and severe the psychological violence has become, seemingly normalised in Australian workplace organisational cultures, we need to call it out and speak more openly about what’s truly going on.
For me I’ll openly say it. Shame on the Minns government for perpetuating such psychologically violent organisational cultures, shame on SafeWork NSW for not taking it seriously for years and also victim blaming vulnerable and frightened employees, shame on NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority and NSW Department of Customer Service for repeatedly refusing to enforce compliance on ALL key stakeholders who choose to commit the crime of workers compensation fraud.
In my case, it’s a self-insured employer, withholding weekly payments, as a continuation of the most diabolical adverse action. The self-insurer also refused to cooperate to implement the agreed injury management plan, despite my beyond reasonable efforts to get cooperation, communication and collaboration.
But the bigger shame is on the regulator, NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority, who failed to enforce compliance on these key stakeholders, for years! Why SIRA NSW?
There’s no reasonable excuse. There’s no excuse!
Trigger warning: for anyone targeted in workplace psychological violence, the article below is to be read with caution. The case studies can be distressing for anyone who’s been a victim of workplace organisational abuse. It was very difficult for me, as I read it, isolated and alone.
Because I’m still being mobbed. Mentally healthy workplaces indeed, SafeWork NSW. Or rather, the latest campaign : Irreplaceable. That message is not protecting the target victims, in action. It’s just another “slogan”.
Shallcross, L. and Bland, S. (2025). ‘Silent wounds : Unmasking emotional abuse and psychosocial risks in Australian organisations.’ In J. Vveinhardt. (Ed.) Breaking the cycle : Insights into violent and aggressive behavior - from personality traits to social movement. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1009152. [Open access chapter] : https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/1214609
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