Compliance Training For HR Professionals

Compliance training for HR professionals is a set of short online courses that an organisation assigns to its HR team, so they understand the laws behind the complaints, records and decisions they manage. Sentrient courses cover sexual harassment, bullying, equal opportunity, psychological safety, performance, privacy and whistleblowing, with a record of completion.

Yes. Sentrient courses are created with Mills Oakley in Australia and Simpson Grierson in New Zealand, and are kept up to date with legislation across Australian states and territories. Most also cover New Zealand. Performance Management for Managers is written for Australia, and we can confirm each course in a demo.

Most HR teams rely on law firm updates, webinars and a professional body, and Sentrient adds structured courses that the organisation assigns to each team member and tracks. For background, read our articles on running an HR compliance audit and the HR compliance challenges Australian employers face.

Sentrient provides short awareness courses that an organisation assigns to its HR team, so it is not an HR qualification or certification, not accredited or nationally recognised training, not legal advice and not investigator training. It does not replace professional development through a professional body. For the wider workforce program, see employee training and development.

Employers carry a positive duty to eliminate workplace sexual harassment as far as possible, and must manage psychosocial hazards under work health and safety law. HR usually designs the policies, training and complaint processes that respond to both. HR compliance training keeps that knowledge current. Your organisation remains responsible for the measures it takes.

Start with sexual harassment, workplace bullying and equal employment opportunity, because they sit behind most complaints. Add psychological safety and performance management next, then privacy, whistleblower protections and diversity, equity and inclusion. The conflict resolution and family and domestic violence courses for managers are useful additions.

Free government courses teach one person one topic, while Sentrient gives your organisation one library across topics with a record of who has completed each. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s Online Learning Centre, for example, offers free courses for employers and managers. The two work well together.

Each course on this page takes about 15 minutes. An HR adviser can complete one between meetings, and a team member can work through all eight in about two hours, spread over a few weeks so that casework is not disrupted.

Sentrient recommends that people complete compliance training at induction and on a regular basis afterwards, for example annually. An HR team may also choose to repeat a course when the law changes or after a difficult case. Your organisation sets the cycle and remains responsible for that decision.

Yes. Sentrient courses are legally endorsed and created with employment law firms Mills Oakley in Australia and Simpson Grierson in New Zealand. They explain the law in plain English. They are awareness training, so your team should still seek legal advice on a specific complaint, investigation or termination.

Sentrient reviews its courses regularly and updates them as employment laws change across Australian states and territories and in New Zealand. Updates are made in the library, so your team and everyone you assign courses to always see the current version.

The courses for supervisors and managers include guidelines for identifying and responding to concerns of sexual harassment, bullying and psychological safety, which is the first stage of any complaint. They do not teach formal investigation practice. Your organisation remains responsible for how complaints are investigated and resolved.

Yes. You can run the courses on the Sentrient platform or license them for a third-party learning management system that is SCORM-compliant. Inside Sentrient, the learning management system handles enrolment and completion reporting in one place.

In Sentrient your team enrols people in a course or a learning program. Automated notifications and alerts tell each person what is due and by when, and the same alerts act as reminders, so HR spends less time sending follow-up emails.

Sentrient reports on learning across the organisation, so HR can see who has completed each course and who has not, including its own team. Those records help you show the steps the organisation took if a complaint, a claim or an enquiry from a regulator follows. Your organisation remains responsible for them.

HR completes its own courses and runs the program for everyone else. From the same library you can assign Compliance Training For Employees to the whole workforce, Compliance Training For Managers to people who lead teams and Compliance Training For Board of Directors to directors and officers.

Yes. The courses are designed to be used alongside your workplace policies, so people learn the general position and then read your own procedure. Sentrient also offers policy management software, so policy sign-off and training completion can be managed in one system.

Yes. The courses are online, so HR team members working from home, in regional offices or across time zones can complete them without attending a session in person. In a demo you can see the learner experience for yourself.

Yes. Sentrient keeps its courses up to date with legislation across all Australian states and territories, and most also cover New Zealand. An HR team supporting sites in several jurisdictions can therefore learn from, and assign, one set of courses.

Training records are personal information, and HR is usually their custodian. The privacy regulator lists staff training on privacy and security obligations among the steps that help protect personal information. Your organisation remains responsible for how it collects, stores and uses learner data.

Sentrient gives an HR team legally endorsed courses created with Mills Oakley and Simpson Grierson, a short format people finish, and one library it can then assign to the whole organisation through Sentrient, its own LMS or its HRIS. More than 1,000 organisations use Sentrient.

Organisations of every size and sector use Sentrient, including Roche Diabetes Care Australia, the Uniting Church in Australia WA, NADO Disability Services and Jesuit Social Services. Read how the HR manager at Roche Diabetes Care Australia describes implementing and using Sentrient.

Sentrient compliance training is priced per user, with plans that scale from a single HR team to a large organisation. The price depends on how many people you train and which courses you choose, so we prepare a quote tailored to your organisation.

Yes. Book a free 20-minute demo and we will walk you through the courses, the learner experience and the completion reporting your team would use. You can ask about delivery through your own LMS or HRIS, and we will follow up with a quote.