Sexual Harassment Training For Employees

Sexual harassment training for employees is usually built around two roles, the person who might harass and the person who might be harassed. The largest group is neither.

Most people in a workplace are bystanders. They see or hear something, register that it was not right, and say nothing, because nothing they could say seems available to them in the moment.

That is the gap worth training. Not confrontation, which few people will attempt, but the smaller options that are realistic. Interrupting with something neutral to break the moment. Checking in with the person afterwards, which matters more than people expect. Naming it later, privately. Backing someone up when they raise it, so they are not the only voice.

Bystander action is also one of the strongest signals of workplace culture. The Australian Human Rights Commission covers the drivers. This is general information rather than legal advice.

See Sentrient’s sexual harassment course and respect at work training.