Modern Slavery Compliance Training

Modern slavery compliance training is awareness training with an evidence trail attached. The content can be identical. What makes it compliance training is that it is assigned to named people, completion is recorded and dated, it repeats on a cycle, and the organisation can produce that record later without reconstructing it from memory.

That matters more here than in most subjects, because the record does not stay internal. Entities reporting under the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018 describe the actions they have taken to assess and address modern slavery risks, and training is one of the actions most commonly described. The statement is approved by the principal governing body, signed by a responsible member, and published on a register anyone can search. A board member is putting their name to a claim about your training.

Practical points that decide whether a record holds up:

• Assign by role rather than by department. The people who need it are whoever makes or influences decisions about suppliers, contracts and workers, which rarely maps neatly to an org chart.
• Keep the version. If content changed mid-year, a completion date alone does not tell you what a person actually saw.
• Set the refresh cycle to your reporting cycle, so training completed sits inside the period the statement covers rather than straddling two.
• Record the people who are not employees. Contractors, labour hire and volunteers are usually in scope and are usually the gap.

Statements on the Modern Slavery Statements Register, run by the Attorney-General’s Department, are free to read and heavily used, with the Register reporting well over 11 million searches as at August 2026. Whatever you say about training is public and comparable against your peers. Requirements differ by sector and change over time, so treat this as general information rather than legal advice.

Sentrient’s modern slavery course sits alongside the wider compliance training courses, with more on compliance training and records management on the blog.