Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace & the duty on employers

This training is to support the understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace and to explore the legislation that was introduced in October 2024 around employers taking preventative measures.

Do you know what it means for you? Do know what this means for your business?

Don't wait until an incident of harassment has taken place, or a complaint has been raised before you take action. Compliance and reasonable steps to prevent harassment need to be considered in advance and will require planning and resources. And this event will help you with that, along with support for employees knowing what is sexual harassment and what is not acceptable.

The session with explore and discuss:

• What is sexual harassment and abuse.
• The new duty around sexual harassment in course of employment.
• Understanding and implementing 'reasonable steps' to prevent sexual arassment.
• Third party harassment and your responsibilities.
• Practical measures to foster preventative workplace cultures.
• Trauma-informed approaches to disclosures and reporting cultures.
• Victim blaming and communication.
• Support organisations.

Who should attend?

• Managers and senior leaders
• Business owners of all size of organisation
• Human resource professionals
• Anyone supporting employee wellbeing
• Employees so everyone can support each other

RSVP (The Rape and Sexual Violence Project) is an award winning, long established and well respected specialist charity supporting children and adults of all genders following rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. We also provide expert training to individuals and organisations around sexual abuse, harassment, trauma-informed approaches and any training to support and challenge awareness of sexual trauma and your responses to survivors.

The training revenue we raise through delivery of our specialist sessions goes back into our services supporting survivors of sexual abuse, violence, harassment and trauma. By attending one of our events you will not only be raising your knowledge of how to respond compassionately, humanely and empathically to the needs of your employees who may be survivors, but also helping us to deliver and develop our valuable services to people now and in the future.