Preventing Sexual Harassment Training Package
Sexual harassment is defined by law as any unwelcome behaviour of a sexual nature that infringes on an individual's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment—whether intentional or not.
The Worker Protection Act 2023 (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) came into force on 26 October 2024 and aims to strengthen protections against sexual harassment in the workplace. Reinforcing the obligation for employers to take ‘reasonable steps’ to safeguard their employees.
Our preventing harassment training package provides your workforce with the knowledge to recognise, prevent, and report incidents of both harassment and sexual harassment, to build a safe and inclusive working environment.
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Preventing Sexual Harassment with Workplace Training Webinar
In this webinar, we provide an overview of the key updates and practical guidance on how firms can effectively address the Worker Protection Act.
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Navigating the Worker Protection Act Webinar
We discuss employers' obligations regarding protection against workplace harassment and sexual harassment and the measures organisations must take to comply.
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Sexual harassment in the workplace is an important topic that all employers and employees need to understand to address carefully and correctly.
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About our Preventing Harassment Training Package
Our training package gives users access to a range of harassment courses from our off-the-shelf course libraries.
Comprehensive Training
- Our collection of interactive courses covers the topic of harassment and preventing sexual harassment.
- From understanding harassment to targets of sexual harassment, this complete training package provides your staff with the knowledge and tools to protect your organisation.
- The training is customisable to your needs. You can tailor courses based on your company's specific policies, risk areas, or compliance requirements.
- You can select preferred delivery formats, from micro-learning sessions to in-depth courses—each concluding with a certificate of completion.
- Our training uses interactive modules and real-world scenarios which have been proven to boost retention and enhance practical knowledge application.
Common Questions
Are the courses SCORM-compliant?
Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.
What other tools are needed beyond training?
A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarations, surveys and registers to track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.
Our Whistleblowing Register tool provides a secure, anonymous platform for reporting incidents confidentially and safeguarding sensitive information while enabling prompt HR and compliance responses.
Preventing Harassment Course Library
Our comprehensive harassment training package comprises focused courses to ensure your employees fully understand the issues, legal obligations, and best practices for enabling a respectful workplace. All the content below exists in Essentials and Compliance Bites libraries.
Preventing Sexual Harassment
Companies rightly have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment, and violations may lead not only to disciplinary action but also to perpetrator prosecution.
Our Preventing Sexual Harassment training course will help your employees identify, avoid and report behaviour that constitutes sexual harassment.
Preventing Sexual Harassment for Managers
It is vital for management to understand sexual harassment and undertake regular training to know the correct way to approach sexual harassment legislation.
Our training course for managers will explain sexual harassment, what to do if anyone in their team experiences or witnesses it, and how to prevent it at work.
Understanding Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment can occur anywhere: at work, in the office, at social events, on business trips, and via email, social media, or online messaging.
Our bite-sized training video helps your staff understand what constitutes sexual harassment in under 4 minutes.
Unwanted Behaviour of a Sexual Nature
Unwanted behaviour of a sexual nature can happen anytime and anywhere, making it critical to recognise and address it immediately.
Our bite-sized training video helps your staff understand what types of inappropriate behaviours can create a hostile workplace, in a few minutes.
Targets of Sexual Harassment
Anyone can be the target of sexual harassment, regardless of position, background, or gender. Recognising this is key to creating a supportive work environment.
Our bite-sized training video lets your team understand who can be affected by harassment and how to protect all individuals in under 3 minutes.
Crossing the Line into Sexual Harassment
"No means no." But sometimes, persistent advances continue despite clear boundaries, and this can lead to crossing the line into sexual harassment.
Our bite-sized training video demonstrates when repeated actions become harassment, even when polite, in just over 3 minutes.
Compliments vs Sexual Harassment
Compliments can sometimes blur the line between friendly and inappropriate behaviour. It’s important to know the difference.
Our bite-sized training video clarifies the boundary between compliments and actions that can cross into harassment, all in under 4 minutes.
Understanding Harassment
Anyone can be the target of workplace harassment, regardless of position, background, or circumstances. Recognising this is essential to ensuring a respectful and safe work environment.
Our bite-sized training video helps your team identify the different forms of harassment and understand how to address them in under 3 minutes.
The Three Characteristics of Harassment
Unwanted advances and inappropriate behaviour can create a hostile work environment.
This bite-sized video explains what constitutes harassment, why it’s important to recognise it, and what action to take when witnessing or experiencing such conduct.
The Protected Characteristics
The UK Equality Act protects individuals from discrimination based on nine key characteristics, including age, disability, sex, and race.
Our bite-sized training video helps your team recognise and report discrimination across these instances to help create a fairer and stronger workplace.
Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias affects how we make judgments based on past experiences and stereotypes, often without realising it.
This bite-sized training video explains how biases can influence workplace decisions, from recruitment to promotions, and the importance of recognising and addressing them to create a fairer and more inclusive environment.
The 4D Bystander Model
This bite-sized training video introduces the 4D bystander intervention model for addressing bullying, harassment, or inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.
Learn how to act by either directly intervening, distracting, delaying or delegating to protect the victim and foster a respectful environment.
Training Overview
- All courses include assessments to measure knowledge retention and effectiveness.
- Comprehensive reporting tools provide detailed diagnostics, highlighting problem areas and specific risks within your organisation.
- Monitor your employees' progress through real-time dashboards that track course completion and assessment results.
- Customised feedback reports identify knowledge gaps, enabling you to focus future training efforts where they're needed most.
Course Specifications
Structure
12+ training courses on preventing harassment, including in-course assessments.
Audience
Suitable for all staff - examples and interactivities designed for staff at all levels. No previous knowledge or experience required.
Design
SHARD-compliant, responsive display on all devices, accessibility on screen readers, visual design controlled via a client style sheet.
FastTrack Option
Ability to offer optional test-out, whereby users can choose to skip the course content and complete the learning assignment simply by passing the assessment.
Compatibility
All Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android (Flash-free for mobile compatibility). AICC and SCORM 1.2-compliant, suitable for both hosted and deployed SCORM or AICC.
Tailoring
Fully customisable on Skillcast Portal CMS.
Translation
Pre-translated versions are available, and text content can also be exported for translation into all languages.
Localisation
Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.
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