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Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment Legal Island's course offers in-depth training on preventing and addressing workplace and sexual harassment, tailored specifically to Irish law. Equip your team with the knowledge and skills needed to maintain a respectful and legally compliant work environment.
Overview

Raise Awareness of Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment Among Staff

Our Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment training for Irish companies aims to raise awareness of harassment and sexual harassment in the workplace. It will explain how to recognise and appropriately respond to unacceptable behaviour and highlight what is appropriate and inappropriate employee conduct.

Legal Island’s Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment eLearning course is tailored specifically to Irish law. It provides comprehensive compliance training for all staff on how to recognise and address harassing behaviour in the work environment so you can offer a harassment free workplace.

What's Included

What's included in our Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment Training for Ireland?

Legal Island’s Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment training course is designed specifically for organisations based in Ireland by a team of bullying and harassment experts.

It’s been tailored specifically to Irish law. It provides comprehensive compliance training for all staff on how to recognise and address harassing behaviour in the work environment in order to uphold behavioural standards and ensure employee safety.

Legal Island’s Workplace Harassment and Sexual Harassment course will include training on various key topics to ensure no one has to enter a hostile work environment. The course will cover appropriate employee conduct, the resources and support available for those affected, behavioural expectations, conflict resolution, and the importance of inclusion and diversity.

Topics covered include:  

  • What is harassment and sexual harassment
  • The impact of sexual harassment at work
  • How to recognise and address unacceptable behaviour
  • How to make a complaint of harassment or sexual harassment

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 Client Executive, Glen Bell - glen@legal-island.com

Importance of Training

No one should have to enter a hostile work environment

Workplace Harassment training is important to ensure every employee is treated with dignity and respect within the workplace, regardless of their role or position, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, background, disability or religious belief.

Everyone deserves to be treated fairly and with respect, no matter their gender identity or gender expression, age, sexual orientation, background, disability, religious beliefs, or political opinions.

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, including discrimination, offensive jokes, intimidation, offensive or suggestive gestures, and unwelcome sexual advances, can damage an employee’s mental and physical health and negatively impact workplace culture and productivity.

Employers in Ireland have a legal responsibility to protect staff from harassment and sexual harassment in the work environment.

Irish companies must do everything they reasonably can to protect staff from harassment, putting measures in place for harassment and discrimination prevention that equal or exceed the minimum standards laid out by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC).

Employers in Ireland are liable for harassment committed by workers in the course of their employment unless they can rely on the ‘reasonable steps’ defence.  

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) or a tribunal will consider the reasonableness of an employer in terms of how they have acted and the steps they have taken to avoid and prevent harassment of their workers.  

Who Needs Workplace Harassment Training?

Every employee working for your company should undertake Workplace Harassment Training

Every employee working for your company should undertake Workplace Harassment training. In order to ensure legal compliance, Irish employers must have a ‘Dignity at Work’ policy that sets out the procedure for dealing with complaints of bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment.

In their ‘Code of Practice on Sexual Harassment and Harassment at Work’, the IHREC advises this policy should include a commitment to training all staff on strategies for harassment prevention.

Anti-harassment training requirements include explanations of the kind of behaviour that constitutes harassment. Staff must also be trained on how they can recognise and address unacceptable behaviour in the work environment.

The IHREC also advises that workplace harassment training is completed on day one of employment and then refreshed regularly to ensure all staff are made aware of how to recognise and address unacceptable behaviour.

Carrying out up-to-date training will help staff members avoid the risk of harassment and give witnesses and bystanders the means to intervene or support victims safely.  It 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.  

Course Duration

How long does this course take?

The course will take no longer than 45 minutes to complete, including an assessment.  Each member of staff will receive their own personalised certificate upon successful completion.

Key Statistics

Why learn with Legal Island?

We take huge pride in the training we deliver across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our key statistics show:

97%

of users said they found the courses beneficial for their organisation

96%

of users said they found the courses convenient and easy to use

96%

of users said their knowledge of the compliance topic area improved

96%

of users said they would recommend our eLearning courses to other organisations

750,000 +

hours of training and course content delivered

200,000 +

employees across the island of Ireland have now benefitted from our services

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