Legal Island’s Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment training for Northern Ireland aims to raise awareness of harassment, discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace and explain how to recognise and appropriately respond to unacceptable behaviour.
No one deserves to feel like they're entering a hostile work environment. Our Workplace Harassment training course aims to exceed the minimum standards expected from up-to-date anti-harassment training requirements and sexual harassment training courses.
Legal Island’s Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment eLearning course is designed specifically for organisations based in Northern Ireland by a team of bullying and harassment experts.
It has been tailored to align with Northern Irish law and provide comprehensive legal compliance training for all staff on how to recognise and address harassing behaviour in the work environment.
Our Workplace Harassment training course offers guidelines to ensure your employees have a complete understanding of what constitutes harassment in order to help your company offer a harassment-free workplace that promotes and encourages inclusion and diversity.
The training will also highlight the repercussions of inappropriate workplace behaviour, harassment and sexual harassment prevention, and the resources and support available to employees should they experience any form of harassment in the workplace.
The course will also include specialised sexual harassment prevention training that will highlight issues such as unwelcome sexual advances, intimidation, and the use of rude or offensive gestures and crude or offensive jokes.
To enhance our ability to provide cutting-edge learning solutions, we have integrated AI tools for eLearning into this course.
Should you have a particular need to brand or tailor any of our courses to your specific requirements, that is no problem at all. We offer a full bespoke service in-house. If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact our eLearning Sales Manager, Debbie Wilson - debbie@legal-island.com.
Northern Ireland is becoming an increasingly modern place to live and work. With that, offering workplace harassment training has become more important than ever. Every employee, regardless of their role, position, or personal background, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace.
It is essential to promote a zero-tolerance policy against any form of harassment and create a culture where each and every individual feels safe and valued, regardless of their gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religious beliefs, political values, or anything else.
Harassment of any kind should not be tolerated whether employees work at a fixed location, at home, or on the move. Harassment in all its different forms can be incredibly damaging to an employee’s mental and physical health, negatively impacting workplace culture and productivity.
Northern Irish employers have a legal responsibility to protect staff from harassment and sexual harassment in the work environment. As an employer, you must do everything you reasonably can to protect staff from harassment and take steps to prevent it from happening.
Employers are liable for employee conduct and harassment committed by workers in the course of their employment unless they can rely on the ‘reasonable steps’ defence.
A tribunal will consider an employer’s reasonableness in terms of how they have acted and the steps they have taken to ensure employee safety and prevent harassment of their workers. This will include examining the human resources available and looking at whether or not the company has offered a training course that outlines expected employee conduct.
In their ‘Eliminating Sexual Harassment from the Modern Workplace’ guidance, the Labour Relations Agency (LRA) and Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) advise that organisations should train all staff on their rights and responsibilities regarding harassment.
This includes explaining the kind of behaviour that constitutes harassment and how staff can recognise and address unacceptable behaviour in the work environment through active bystander intervention.
They advise that workplace harassment training be completed as part of a new employee orientation on the start date of employment. It should then be refreshed regularly to ensure that all staff are aware of how to recognise and address unreasonable behaviour.
Carrying out up-to-date training will help staff members avoid the threat of harassment and give witnesses and bystanders the means to intervene or support victims safely.
Our Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment training for Northern Irish companies also gives individuals the confidence to make a complaint if they feel they have been harassed.
Every individual in the workplace has a role to play in promoting a safe, respectful culture free from harassment.
The course will take no longer than 45 minutes to complete, including a final assessment. Each member of staff will receive their own personalised certificate upon successful completion.
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