With only weeks left until the ‘all reasonable steps’ standard under the Employment Rights Act comes into force on 30 October, now is the time to take a highly practical approach to understanding and mitigating sexual harassment risks in the workplace.
This Personnel Today webinar, in association with learning provider VinciWorks, examined various harassment scenarios across office-based, hospitality and customer-facing workplaces. Our experts considered what an employer should do at each stage, what could go wrong, and how the organisation could demonstrate that it had taken reasonable preventative and responsive steps.
Personnel Today editor Rob Moss was joined by VinciWorks experts Nick Henderson-Mayo, head of compliance, and Naomi Grossman, compliance manager, who brought practical insights from managing sexual harassment risks across a range of sites and working environments. We also heard from Joanna Lewis, managing director of independent whistleblowing service Safecall, which supports organisations to build healthy, speak-up cultures.
Watch now to learn:
- Practical case studies across various work and social settings, including alcohol, third-party harassment, inappropriate behaviour and conduct outside normal working hours
- How managers should respond when concerns are raised informally, or the individual does not want to make a formal complaint
- When a situation should trigger an investigation, risk assessment or other intervention
- What policies, training and preventative measures employers should already have in place
- How to document decisions and demonstrate that reasonable steps have been taken
- Practical lessons from managing sexual harassment risk across different sites and working environments
Throughout the session, we discussed the choices available to employers at each stage and examined how different responses could affect legal, cultural and reputational risk.
This practical 60-minute webinar included a case-study discussion and live Q&A.
