From 26 October 2024, the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act) 2023 introduces a new legal duty compelling ALL employers to show they've taken reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.

Are you ready?  Will you be able to satisfy an employment tribunal, or the Equality and Human Rights Commission, that you've taken reasonable steps to prevent harassment?

Easier said than done?  

Not if you've got Daniel Barnett's Anti-Harassment Pack to use.

And you'll add value to your organisation by reducing employee conflict (and turnover).

I’m barrister Daniel Barnett, and I've invested over 80 hours' of research and brainstorming to prepare this anti-harassment pack for you.

The pressure on HR Professionals has never been greater  -  and demand from your organisation to show the strategic value you add increases every year.

This new anti-harassment pack MASSIVELY reduces the risk of grievances, of successful tribunal claims, of investigations by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and of discontent and unhappiness within the workforce.

Most organisations don't know about the 'all reasonable steps' defence, buried in the Equality Act 2010 (section 109(4) to be precise).  If an employer shows it's taken all reasonable steps to prevent harassment in the workplace, it won't be liable if one of its employees then harasses a colleague.  It's the secret 'get out of jail free' card that few employers use.  And the anti-harassment pack helps you pull it off.

First and foremost, you get the perfect training package for all your employees.

If you do it properly - and you need to do it properly if you're in front of a tribunal - it will take you at least eight hours of research and writing to prepare a workshop on harassment, longer to build in quizzes and case studies, and several hours to build a powerpoint deck.  What's that worth?  Well, it frees up 2-3 days of your time, in effect giving you the chance to deliver the workshop multiple times at no cost, as well as the time to implement the brand-new harassment & bullying policy and the other bonuses that come with the Anti-Harassment Pack.

If you use this exclusive anti-harassment pack, you’re buying your time back at a fraction of the cost.

It’s a no-hassle option for any busy HR Professional who understands the immediate and long-term benefits of ensuring a harassment-free workplace.

Each pack contains:

Each pack contains a complete script for you to read out to your employees. The script is 4,000 words long, and if delivered in full, will comfortably provide a one-hour training session.  It's supplied as a Word document, so you can read it off your screen or print it onto A5 cards when delivering the training.

You can share delivery between yourself and colleagues.  Or you can cut it down to a shorter version which you can present in 30 minutes.

The workshop:

This talk is packed with practical tips that you can give your clients and prospects, to help them make sure their organisation complies with its legal obligations.

It also contains interactive Q&A sessions, in the form of two case studies, where you go through a series of questions with your audience (model answers provided). You can talk through the case studies, or use them as breakout sessions.  It also contains 'fact or myth' questions to put to your employees, to encourage discussion and debate.

The anti-harassment pack also includes a sleek, modern set of powerpoint slides to accompany your talk. No bullet points on a boring background. This is a vibrant, exciting set of slides to keep your audience engaged; a million miles away from slides you may have used in the past.

To establish the 'all reasonable steps' defence and avoid liability for harassment, you need to show your managers are properly trained in handling complaints of harasment.  Our guide, supplied as a Word document, is an essential checklist for managers to follow; and, importantly, it doubles up as evidence that you are supplying proper training and support to your managers.

With this 13,000-word guide, you're ready to answer any questions your employees ask you during the training.  It also serves as an essential reference bible if you need to research anything about harassment at a later date, and contains details of what other steps you, as an HR Professional, can take to avoid all forms of harassment in the workplace.

This comprehensive risk assessment tool helps your organisation's managers to assess the risk of sexual harassment within a multitude of different scenarios.  Use this checklist as a powerful weapon inyour armoury to reduce the risk of sexual harassment taking place, and in turn to establish the 'reasonable steps' defence.  It's like having a map for a discrimination-free zone.

You can use (and reproduce) our flowchart showing the legal steps a tribunal will go through in deciding whether conduct amounts to harassment, or falls within the specialised definition of sexual harassment.  It simplifies the law and gives you an easy-to-follow guide.

As well as the two case studies (for which you'll have model answers), you'll get a uniquely crafted A4 illustration of a busy workplace, with five potential acts of harassment going on within the image.  Your delegates can interact with each other in group activities by spotting and discussing the harassment risks in the image.

In a nutshell, your anti-harassment pack is great because it’s:

At the end of it all, your organisation will thank you for delivering useful information to employees simply, providing world-classd training, and helping to protect it from the risk of harassment claims.

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