Sexual Harassment Training For Contractors

It is a short online course an organisation assigns to the subcontractors, labour hire workers and consultants who work for it without being employed by it, so they know what sexual harassment is, how to report it and what is expected on site, with a dated record of completion for each person. Sexual harassment training for contractors is legally endorsed and takes about fifteen minutes.

Yes. The content follows the legislation of every Australian state and territory and of New Zealand, Respect at Work reforms included. Mills Oakley Lawyers in Australia and Simpson Grierson Lawyers in New Zealand collaborate on the course, so a host with sites on both sides of the Tasman trains every contractor once and keeps one record.

Most organisations rely on the contracting business to have done it, a line in the site induction, or a clause in the contract. Sentrient gives the organisation online sexual harassment training for contractors that every worker on site completes, with the record in the host’s hands. Two short reads: who can be sexually harassed at work and understanding sexual harassment at work.

An organisation assigns this legally endorsed awareness course to its contractors and nothing more is claimed for it. It is not accredited or nationally recognised, not a construction induction card, not a site-specific induction, not legal advice and not a facilitated session. Our contractor LMS page covers the platform a contracting business runs its own training on, and the base course page covers employees.

The Sex Discrimination Act places the positive duty on employers and on any person conducting a business or undertaking, and since the Respect at Work amendments it uses the work health and safety meaning of worker, which takes in contractors, subcontractors, labour hire, apprentices and volunteers. A host and a labour hire provider can each owe a duty to the same person. Each organisation remains responsible for its own duty.

Everyone who carries out work for the organisation without being on its payroll: labour hire workers, subcontractors and their employees, consultants on site and regular suppliers’ staff. Sexual harassment training for subcontractors is the same workforce course employees complete. A subcontractor’s supervisors or leading hands take the sexual harassment training for managers and supervisors instead.

The Fair Work Ombudsman’s page on preventing workplace sexual harassment is a good read, and regulators publish free guides and modules. They inform one person and leave the host with nothing to show for it. Sentrient gives the organisation one course across staff and contractors, current in every state and territory, with a dated record for each worker that the host and the contracting business can both produce.

About fifteen minutes, on a phone, tablet or laptop, in one go or in parts. The right time is before site access, alongside the site induction, so the person has completed it before their first shift. For a crew already on site, most hosts set a due date within the first week and let the reminders do the chasing.

Once a year is the usual cycle, and again when legislation changes. A contractor who returns to the same host after a break usually completes it again if their last record is more than a year old. How often your organisation requires it is its own decision, and the record shows the date each contractor last finished.

Yes. Mills Oakley Lawyers in Australia and Simpson Grierson Lawyers in New Zealand collaborate on the content, and it is aligned to Respect at Work guidance. The endorsement attaches to this course and the managers version, not to a host’s contract terms or site induction, and it does not make the course legal advice.

Sentrient updates the content whenever the law moves in any Australian state or territory or in New Zealand, including the Respect at Work changes across the Sex Discrimination Act, the Fair Work Act and the Human Rights Commission’s own Act. Neither the host nor the contracting business tracks the changes. A contractor who completes the course this year trains on the current version.

Both can owe a duty to the same person, and Safe Work Australia says a duty cannot be contracted away. Most hosts assign the course as part of employee induction training before site access, and ask the labour hire provider to do the same for its own record. Which business is responsible for a particular incident depends on the facts, and each organisation remains responsible for its own duty.

Yes. Assign it through the Sentrient platform or through the learning management system or HRIS the host already uses. A contractor is set up as a learner without becoming an employee in the system, so completion is recorded against their name and date and the host keeps one record for everyone who worked on site.

Add each contractor as a learner in the Sentrient learning management system, with a due date tied to their start date on site. Automated notifications and alerts tell each person what is due and when, and nudge anyone who has not finished. The site manager or contractor coordinator sees completion across the whole crew from one screen.

A report showing the contractor’s name, the course completed, the date and the declaration they made at the end, alongside the policy they acknowledged, whether they were on site for a week or a year. It supports the host’s account of the reasonable steps it took. It is a record of training, not proof that the duty was met, and the organisation remains responsible for the duty.

It is one course a host assigns across everyone on site. Our Sexual Harassment Training For HR Professionals page covers the people team that runs the program, while the Sexual Harassment Training For Board Members page covers the directors who oversee it. Employer and volunteer pages in this series will join this list as they go live.

Yes. The course explains the conduct and the policy sets the organisation’s rules for its site, so most hosts assign both at induction. Sentrient’s policy management software records each contractor’s sign-off against the policy version, so the host can show that the person was trained and knew the rules that applied on site.

Yes. It opens in a browser on any phone, tablet or laptop with nothing to install, so a contractor completes it in a site shed, in a vehicle before the shift or at home the night before. Completion lands in the same record wherever they are, which suits crews that move between sites and regions.

Yes. The one course is current for each Australian state and territory and for New Zealand, so a host with sites in both, or a contractor who crosses the Tasman, trains once. Local law still binds each entity separately, and the organisation remains responsible for meeting its own obligations.

Sentrient records a contractor’s name, completion date and learning check against a learner profile, and the host controls who can see it. That personal information is handled under the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles, including when a host shares a completion record with a contracting business. Your organisation remains responsible for the learner information it collects and uses.

Because Sentrient’s contractor sexual harassment training is legally endorsed, written with Mills Oakley and Simpson Grierson, current on both sides of the Tasman, and built so a host can train people it does not employ and keep the record. Sentrient has delivered online sexual harassment training for contractors and staff across Australia and New Zealand, from single sites to groups with crews in every state.

Any organisation with people on site who are not on its payroll: builders and principals, manufacturers, mines, hospitals, universities, councils and labour hire providers. Sentrient’s clients include Modern Dental Pacific, the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre, Pental Limited and Carinya Society. Read how Modern Dental Pacific runs its compliance program through Sentrient.

Pricing is per user, so a contractor counts the same as an employee, and the quote depends on how many people you train across staff and contractors and whether you take this course alone or with the wider library. No figure appears here because it moves with those numbers. Ask for a tailored quote during the demo.

Ask for a free 20-minute demo and you will see the course as a contractor sees it on a phone, then how a learner is added without a payroll record, the reminders, and the completion report a site manager runs. Bring your contractor coordinator or safety lead, whose questions tend to be the practical ones. Request your free demo and we will line it up with your next onboarding.