Free Webinar 24th November: The Worker Protection Act One Year On: Learnings and Reflections

A year on from the Act placing a new duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment, momentum is building. Workplace culture, accountability, and safety are finally in the spotlight. Organisations are auditing culture, rewriting policies, investing in training, and holding leaders to account. Some, including a major national retailer that recently signed a formal agreement to strengthen its approach, are taking bold, public steps toward safer workplaces.

Yet, despite this renewed legal focus, the deeper structural issues that enable harassment to persist remain stubbornly in place. There’s progress — but still a long way to go.

At ICENA, we’ve seen first-hand what meaningful prevention looks like, and where barriers remain. Over the past year, our work with universities, public institutions, corporate firms, and charities has revealed a common thread: harassment is sustained by the same forces that drive wider workplace inequalities — power imbalance, gender inequality, and a culture of silence. We help organisations understand and address those connections, because lasting change depends on more than compliance – it depends on culture.