Modern Slavery Training Course

A modern slavery training course teaches staff to recognise severe exploitation in an organisation’s own operations and its supply chain, and what to do when they see something. No Australian law requires that course to be accredited, so the useful questions when comparing options are what it covers, who it is written for, and what evidence it leaves behind.

Coverage is where most courses fall short. A course built only around forced labour leaves out debt bondage, deceptive recruiting for labour services and forced marriage, which are separate practices under Australian law and present very differently on the ground. Ask for the module list rather than the marketing page.

If a provider describes its course as nationally recognised, that claim is checkable. Accreditation means the course has been independently assessed by ASQA or a state regulator against the Standards for VET Accredited Courses 2021 and the Australian Qualifications Framework, that only a registered training organisation can deliver it, and that it appears on the National Training Register with a course code. Most workplace modern slavery courses are non-accredited awareness training, which suits the purpose perfectly well. The problem is only when the two are blurred in a sales conversation.

Three further things worth checking before you commit:

• whether the content is written to Australian law rather than adapted from the UK or US regimes
• whether there is an assessment, so that completion means something more than a video played to the end
• whether the platform records who completed what and when, because a reporting entity has to describe the actions it took

Requirements differ by sector and change over time, so treat this as general information rather than legal advice. Related reading sits under compliance training and learning management.

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