Modern Slavery Training
Modern slavery training is different from most compliance training in one important way. Bullying, safety and privacy courses ask the learner to change their own behaviour, because the learner is the risk. Modern slavery training asks the learner to notice something being done to someone else, often by another company, in another country, further down a supply chain.
That changes what a course has to achieve. Awareness of the eight practices in the Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018 is the starting point, not the destination. The harder part is teaching people to act on an unremarkable observation. A cleaner who is never rostered under their own name. A labour hire crew that changes completely between site visits. A supplier whose price moved but whose lead time did not. None of these is proof of anything, and all of them are worth a question.
Practical design points worth building in:
- Teach escalation as clearly as identification. People who notice something and have nowhere obvious to take it usually take it nowhere.
- Prepare front line staff for a conversation with a person at risk, not only for a quiz. The Australian Government’s practice guidelines devote a whole section to preparing to engage before anyone speaks to someone who may be affected.
- Handle the material carefully. The same guidelines open with a content warning, and a course covering forced marriage or child labour can land badly with a learner who has lived experience.
- Measure the questions and reports the training generates, not the completion rate. Completion tells you the module ran.
For the underlying practice standard, the Practice Guidelines for Organisations, now in a fourth edition and published with the National Roundtable on Human Trafficking and Slavery, set out how to work safely and ethically with people who have experienced modern slavery. Obligations differ by sector and change over time, so treat this as general information rather than legal advice.
The posts tagged here cover why the training is expected, what it should teach and where it falls short. For the course itself see Sentrient’s modern slavery and human rights training course, and for how it sits beside the rest of a programme see compliance training, learning assessment and the full compliance training courses library.
Why Is Modern Slavery Training Required In Australian Businesses
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Sentrient is proud to release the new online modern slavery course as its latest online course that forms part of a fast-growing and comprehensive suite of online workplace compliance, social safety, and awareness courses for employers with employees, contractors and volunteers who are based in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, USA, Canada, UK, and South Africa. […]
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