Sexual Harassment Training for Employees – [Full Video Kit]

Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace is critical to the success of your business. This Sexual Harassment Training Video will help educate your workers on how to identify, prevent, and handle any situation involving sexual harassment in all its forms. This training course will give your employees the information they need.

Training managers? See our Sexual Harassment Training for Managers & Supervisors.

This Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Video Covers:

• What is sexual harassment, and how is it defined? (While outlawed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sexual harassment examples include requests for sexual favors, unwelcome advances, as well as verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is unwanted. It is considered to be “discrimination in employment by the CRA)
• What are examples of blatant sexual harassment situations? (Blatant examples include being touched by a co-worker that has a sexual intent, performing or being asked for sexual favors in exchange for increased pay, promotion, making obscene gestures, showing inappropriate pictures to co-workers, etc.)
• What are some examples of subtle sexual harassment? (Subtle examples include offensive comments about a co-worker’s gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, etc.)
• What are some other forms of harassment that employees might not realize? (looking at a co-worker inappropriately, showing sexually suggestive pictures, making obscene gestures, and more)

Sexual Harassment Training Course Additional Topics:

• What are the effects of unwanted sexual advances, inappropriate touching, etc, on the workplace?
• What are some examples of how a victim of sexual harassment might feel? (that they are responsible for what is happening, that they are powerless to do anything about it, or that no one would understand or believe their complaints if they were reported)
• Is there a difference between discrimination and sexual harassment? (they are similar but different, and we have a separate training course that focuses on discrimination in the workplace)
• What are the appropriate ways to report offensive behavior? (Make sure employees understand their company policy, reporting structure, and reporting processes)
• What are some reasons that an employee might not want to report a situation where they feel harassed? (They might have concerns that no one will believe them, they fear they might face discrimination by managers or supervisors if they report something, they might be embarrassed, they might worry about retaliation, they might feel anxiety about formally reporting, and finally, they might have fears about what the harasser will do if they are reported)

More Topics in This Sexual Harassment Training Program:

• What are the “do’s” and “don’t’s” when dealing with this sensitive topic?
• What are some tips on how to document a sexual harassment allegation? (Who was involved, both the reporter and the other party, the exact date and time that the offensive behavior occurred, and the names of any potential witnesses)
• The importance of a thorough and complete investigation if a sexual harassment claim is made
• When and how to report a situation to the employer or human resource staff? (it’s important that all sexual harassment, regardless of how minor, be reported by witnesses as well as by the person who the harassment is directed at)
• Can sexual harassment only be a male harassing a female? (No, harassment can occur with females against men. A person of any gender, sexual orientation or gender identity can harass any person)
• Why is an employer’s written policy regarding sexual harassment important? (It lays out the ground rules for employees on what behavior is acceptable and what is not acceptable)
• What are the things employees should be taught to never do at work? (Bring racy or adult magazines to work, touch another employee, and use vulgar language are examples)

When there is a workplace sexual harassment situation, it is never comfortable for the employee, the employer, or the other associates involved. Educating your employees through employee training is important in keeping your workplace drama free and safe for all your workers. This training video will help educate your staff on sexual harassment and how to prevent it.

Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Delivery Options:

At just over 12 minutes long, this training is available as a DVD or on a USB Stick and in English or Spanish. This sexual harassment training is also available as an online course, taken either on its own or as part of our online safety training library of more than 250 courses. With either option, employees receive a completion certificate for this training course.

Why Every Employee Needs Sexual Harassment Training

Most workplace harassment does not begin with something a supervisor would recognise as harassment. It begins with a comment that gets a laugh, a photo passed around a break room, or a running joke that one person has stopped finding funny and does not feel able to say so. By the time it reaches HR it is rarely a single incident — it is a pattern that several people noticed and nobody named. Training every employee, not just management, is what shortens that gap between the first incident and the first report.

The second reason is that employees consistently underestimate what counts. Harassment is not limited to requests for sexual favours or unwanted touching. It includes offensive comments about a co-worker’s gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression; obscene gestures; and displaying sexually suggestive images at work. It is not limited by who is involved either — a person of any gender or sexual orientation can harass, and be harassed by, any other. Staff who have never had that spelled out are not equipped to recognise it in themselves, let alone report it in someone else.

The third reason is that most incidents go unreported, and the reasons are predictable: employees fear they will not be believed, worry about retaliation from a manager or the harasser, feel embarrassed, or assume a minor incident is not worth raising. A written policy alone does not address any of that. Training that walks through the reporting process — who to tell, what to document, and what protections exist — is what turns a policy on the wall into something people actually use.

Finally, documented training is the backbone of an employer’s defence. Sexual harassment has been unlawful employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 since it was enacted, and a growing number of states now mandate harassment training on a fixed schedule. Being able to show what was taught, to whom, and when is what separates an employer who took the issue seriously from one who did not.

Who Needs This Training:

• All non-supervisory employees, as part of onboarding and on a regular refresher cycle
• Teams in states with mandated harassment training — California, New York, Illinois and Connecticut among them — as one component of a documented programme
• Crews and shift workers who rarely sit at a desk, where a short video at a team meeting is the only practical way to train everyone
• Spanish-speaking workforces, using the Spanish-language version so the training is understood rather than merely delivered
• Employers refreshing a harassment policy who need every employee to have seen the same material
• Any workplace where staff have never been told, in plain terms, what to do if it happens to them

Training managers and supervisors? They carry legal duties this course does not cover — how to receive a complaint, how to investigate, and how to avoid retaliation. Use our sexual harassment training for managers and supervisors for that group, and this course for everyone else.

This Complete Sexual Harassment Training Program Includes These Items:

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