The Tasmanian Integrity Commission says public servants need to be better equipped in order to avoid the allure of corruption.

The corruption watchdog says if workers were more aware of the specific lines of misconduct and illicit activity – they would be less likely to overstep them.

It says public servants often unknowingly engage in misconduct.

Tasmania's Integrity Commission heard over 60 complaints of serious misconduct in the last financial year. Nearly two-thirds of those were dismissed after initial probing – with just six claims still standing for consideration, assessment or investigation.

A report released this week says with a little bit more ethics and integrity training, most of the state's public servants would stay on the good side.

Executive officer with the corruption watchdog, Diane Merryfull, says: “There's a lot of work to do, not only in terms of investigating misconduct but there's an awful lot of work to do in terms of educating public servants on ethics and integrity because prevention's better than cure," .”

“That's where we want to put a lot of emphasis in the coming year.”

The most complaints were reportedly directed at the Tasmania Police, close to a third were levelled at the law enforcers. Following that, the Department of Health and Human Services received nearly a quarter of the total complaints.

The bases of most allegations were claims of fraudulent activity, failure to act, inappropriate behaviour, assault and abuse of power.

There was not a single case this financial year that has led to the Commission requesting a search warrant, and just three where it exercised its power to enter a premises.