respectful workplace training

Respectful workplace training and harassment training cover overlapping ground from opposite directions, and the direction affects what people retain.

Harassment training defines a floor. Here is what is unlawful, here is what happens if you cross it. Necessary, and it teaches people where the line is so they can stand just inside it.

Respectful workplace training describes a standard. Here is how we work, here is what good looks like. It gives people something to aim at rather than something to avoid.

The risk is that positive framing goes soft and stops naming unlawful conduct clearly. The two are not alternatives. Teach the standard, and be explicit that some conduct is not a matter of workplace culture at all but unlawful and separately actionable.

Framing alone changes very little if the two are taught as though they were the same thing. Safe Work Australia covers the psychosocial duty. This is general information rather than legal advice.

See Sentrient’s respect at work training and code of conduct training.