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Preventing and Responding to Workplace Sexual Harassment

About this course

This expert-led training is designed specifically for risk managers and professionals responsible for maintaining a safe and compliant work environment. Unlock the full potential of risk management with RMIA’s course, Preventing and Responding to Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Risk Management Approach.

Course specifics

Audience: Risk managers, HR professionals, compliance officers, and organisational leaders committed to enhancing their risk management practices and creating a safe work environment.

Cost: $660 (members), $770 (non-members)

Facilitator: Riskcom

Format: Online

Time: 4-hours

CPD Points: 6

Course Facilitator:
Riskcom

Learning outcomes:

  • Develop Comprehensive Policies: Participants will gain the skills to create and implement effective workplace policies and procedures that prevent sexual harassment and ensure legal compliance. This includes drafting clear guidelines, conducting risk assessments, and establishing reporting mechanisms.

  • Enhance Risk Management Techniques: Attendees will learn to apply risk management strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate the risks associated with sexual harassment. This involves evaluating potential risks, implementing preventive measures, and managing the impact on the organisation.

  • Master Complaint Handling and Investigation: Participants will acquire best practices for managing and investigating sexual harassment complaints, including maintaining confidentiality, conducting impartial investigations, and taking appropriate corrective actions to address and resolve issues effectively.

Course details

This training equips risk managers and HR professionals with essential skills to tackle sexual harassment effectively. Learn to identify, assess, and mitigate risks through a comprehensive risk management framework. Gain insights into legal compliance, develop robust policies, and foster a harassment-free workplace. The course also covers best practices for handling complaints and providing support to all involved. Perfect for those seeking to advance their capabilities in creating a safe, compliant, and respectful work environment.

Key topics covered:

1.   Understanding the problem – what is sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, gender based harassment? Using a risk management approach examine the underlying drivers and common risk factors for sexual harassment/misconduct, including the role that power plays.

2.   Sexual harassment and the law – what is your role in eliminating sexual harassment and gender based harassment? Explores the legal obligations and responsibilities of leaders to identify and respond to sexual harassment and to prevent victimisation. Explores the relationship between cultures of permissiveness and sexual harassment.

3.   Impact of sexual harassment on victims and the organisation – why don’t people complain? Impact of intersectionality. Role of a leader in creating a psychologically safe culture and role modelling respectful behaviours. What is my leadership impact?

4.   Spectrum of interventions – prevention, activating early intervention, introduction of a model for early intervention conversations as a leader or an ally/active upstander.

5.   Applying the learning – preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace. Partnering with Serious Woo, we fill the gap between theory and competence. Using specialised corporate actors and true to life scenarios in an interactive format, you have the opportunity to safely practice early interventions/conversations and build your confidence in using the models and theory taught.