Online Workplace Compliance Courses

Online workplace compliance courses are short eLearning modules that set out how people are expected to behave at work and what the law requires of them. The conduct side of the library carries the most weight, because equal employment opportunity, bullying, harassment and code of conduct are where most workplace disputes begin.

A good conduct course teaches the line, not just the label. Workplace bullying has a specific meaning. The Fair Work Commission describes it as an individual or group repeatedly behaving unreasonably towards a worker, where the behaviour creates a risk to health and safety. Reasonable management action carried out in a reasonable way is not bullying, which is why allocating work or giving fair performance feedback sits outside the definition. Staff who have never been taught that distinction tend to either stay silent about real bullying or label ordinary supervision as bullying.

A conduct focused library usually covers:

• Equal employment opportunity, covering recruitment, promotion and everyday decisions about people.
• Workplace bullying for all staff, and a version for supervisors and managers that deals with receiving a complaint and acting on it.
• Code of conduct awareness, which ties the behavioural rules back to the organisation’s own policy rather than leaving them abstract.

Courses of this kind work best when they are assigned at induction, refreshed on a set cycle, and paired with acknowledgement of the matching policy. The Fair Work Commission’s guidance on what bullying at work is is a useful reference for anyone reviewing course content. Requirements differ by state and territory and change over time, so treat this as general information rather than legal advice. Browse the full set of workplace compliance courses available online.