Modern Day Slavery Training

Modern day slavery training teaches people to recognise severe exploitation and to know what to do when something looks wrong. Most courses run 20 to 40 minutes, sit in induction and repeat on a cycle. The law and your policies will call it modern slavery, so expect that wording on any document you are asked to sign.

A good course spends its time on recognition rather than definitions. What people take away should be concrete. Someone who cannot produce their own identity documents. Wages paid to an account the worker does not control. Deductions for accommodation or transport that never seem to clear. A worker who cannot leave the site or speak without a supervisor present. None of these prove anything on their own, and the training should say so.

Child labour sits inside the statutory definition, which surprises people who assume the topic is only about offshore factories. The ILO treats the worst forms of child labour as a priority, and its Recommendation No. 190 describes hazardous work as including exposure to physical, psychological or sexual abuse, work underground or at dangerous heights, dangerous machinery or heavy loads, hazardous substances, long hours or night work, and unreasonable confinement to the employer’s premises. Convention No. 182 is the first ILO Convention to achieve universal ratification, and abolishing child labour is a fundamental obligation for member States whether or not they have ratified it.

Training records matter as much as the content. If your organisation reports under the Modern Slavery Act, or supplies one that does, you will be asked who completed what and when. Posts tagged here sit alongside broader compliance training and human rights coverage. Obligations vary by sector and change over time, so treat this as general information rather than legal advice. The ILO’s Conventions on child labour set out the international standard.

Sentrient’s modern slavery course sits within the wider compliance training courses library.