Sexual Harassment Training

Sexual harassment training equips professionals to recognise, respond to, and prevent harassment, creating safer, inclusive workplaces and schools.

About our Sexual Harassment & Misconduct Courses

Our sexual harassment training courses are tailored to your organisation to help prevent, recognise and respond to sexual harassment. Using real-life, sector-specific case studies, participants learn their role in creating safe workplaces, gaining the skills to identify and safely intervene in harassment situations. We integrate your organisation’s policies into our training and offer practical recommendations through feedback and evaluation. Suitable for leaders, teams, managers, HR and EDI teams from all organisations, our courses ensure comprehensive understanding and effective prevention of sexual harassment.

Sexual Harassment & Misconduct Courses

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the new sexual harassment law?

    The Worker Protection Act 2023, effective October 26, 2024( (Amendment of Equality Act 2010), requires employers to ensure reasonable steps have been made to prevent workplace sexual harassment.

    Employers now have a legal requirement to take reasonable steps to prevent by:

    Check out our blog to understand more how your duties as an employer are changing

  • How To Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Workplace?

    Preventing sexual harassment requires clear policies, regular training, and a supportive reporting system. Employers should implement a zero-tolerance policy, educate employees on recognising and preventing harassment, and offer confidential reporting channels.

  • Why Sexual Harassment Training is Important?

    Sexual harassment training helps employees recognise, prevent, and respond to inappropriate behavior, creating a respectful workplace culture. It clarifies company policies, legal rights, and reporting procedures, empowering employees to take action. Training also reduces employer liability, strengthens compliance, and more importantly, encourages a safe, inclusive environment where all employees feel valued and protected.

  • What does ICENA’s Sexual Harassment Investigation Training cover?

    Conducting investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct requires specialised, trauma-informed skills that differ significantly from standard disciplinary or grievance procedures.

    ICENA’s specialist training course equips HR teams, managers, and leaders with a robust framework:
    Gathering Evidence Fairly: Learning how to interview witnesses and gather evidence objectively, while completely avoiding outdated myths, victim-blaming assumptions, or invasive questions about a complainant’s personal life.

    Trauma-Informed Interviewing Techniques: Training investigators how to structure interviews to accommodate the psychological impacts of trauma, ensuring they collect accurate information without causing further distress.

    Navigating Complex Credibility Factors: Developing the skills to evaluate conflicting accounts, handle anonymous reporting, and make well-reasoned decisions based on the balance of probabilities.

    Professional investigation training protects your organisation from procedural failures, ensures legal compliance, and guarantees a fair, just, and respectful process for everyone involved.

  • What is the difference between sexual harassment and sexual misconduct?

    While the terms are often used interchangeably, “sexual misconduct” is a broader, umbrella term that encompasses sexual harassment alongside other harmful, non-consensual behaviours.

    Understanding the distinction helps organisations draft precise policies and reporting pathways:

    Sexual Harassment: This is a specific legal term focused primarily on unwanted verbal, non-verbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature that violates dignity or creates a hostile environment within a workplace or educational setting.

    Sexual Misconduct: This is a wider term frequently used by universities, professional bodies, and regulatory frameworks. It includes sexual harassment but expands to cover sexual assault, grooming, stalking, domestic abuse, exploitation, and abuses of power.

    Policy Implications: Company and institutional policies must explicitly cover both terms to ensure that no harmful behaviour falls through a legal loophole or technicality.

    Training helps organisations accurately define these terms, ensuring that internal codes of conduct leave absolutely no room for ambiguity regarding unacceptable behaviour.

  • What is the role of an "Active Bystander" in tackling sexual harassment?

    An active bystander is an individual who witnesses low-level inappropriate behaviour, harassment, or misconduct and chooses to safely intervene, disrupting the behaviour before it escalates.

    Bystander training gives teams the practical tools to challenge a toxic culture from within:

    Dismantling the “Locker Room” Culture: Harassment rarely starts with extreme behaviour. It often begins with unchallenged sexist jokes, inappropriate comments, or casual objectification that builds a permissive environment.

    Practical Intervention Strategies: Through frameworks like the “5 Ds” (Direct, Distract, Delegate, Delay, Document), staff learn how to interrupt a situation safely and effectively without escalating conflict.

    Shifting the Social Norm: When employees see their peers calling out bad behaviour, it shifts the workplace norm, sending a powerful message that misconduct is entirely unacceptable to the community.

    Safety shouldn’t rest solely on the shoulders of managers or victims. Active bystander training empowers the entire workforce to take shared responsibility for a respectful workplace.

“Thank you again for today’s training. I can’t remember the last time I came out of training so inspired and ready for action.”

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    Please note that we are not a frontline organisation. If you or someone you know needs urgent help following a sexual assault, visit the Rape Crisis website for a list of services that will be able to help you.

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