It is a 15-minute online sexual harassment prevention course for your entire workforce, including employees, contractors, volunteers, new hires and remote staff. It teaches people what sexual harassment and sex-based harassment are, how to report them, and how to act as a bystander. Australian law defines a 'worker' broadly, so training only permanent employees leaves a gap in your defence.
Legally Endorsed for AU & NZ
Online Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Course
This 15-minute online sexual harassment prevention course meets your respect at work obligations and is kept up to date with legislation for all states and territories in Australia, and New Zealand.
Sexual Harassment Prevention
Online Training Course
Australia and New Zealand
The workplace sexual harassment awareness training course will enable you to meet your respect at-work obligations for the education and training of employees, contractors and volunteers. You will also be able to meet your positive duty to eliminate, as far as possible, sexual harassment and sex-based harassment in the workplace, conduct that contributes to a hostile workplace on the grounds of sex, discrimination, and related acts of victimisation on the grounds of sex. Employee sexual harassment training provides a legal framework, identifies unacceptable behaviour, and provides an understanding of gender-based harassment and the impact of such incidents on other employees and businesses.
Did You Know About Sexual Harassment?
- 1 in 3 people have experienced sexual harassment or sex-based harassment in the workplace.
- Sexual harassment and sex-based harassment can occur in any workplace, regardless of industry, location or size.
- Recent changes to the Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Act 2021 further demonstrate the importance of respect at work and the delivery of legally compliant sexual harassment prevention training.
Why Is Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Important?
Under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth), you have a positive duty to eliminate, as far as possible, the following unlawful behaviour:
- Sexual harassment in the workplace.
- Sex-based harassment in the workplace.
- Conduct that contributes to a hostile workplace on the grounds of sex.
- Discrimination on the grounds of sex.
- Related acts of victimisation on the grounds of sex.
It is everyone’s responsibility to do the right thing regarding sexual harassment prevention and respect at work. First, meeting our respects at work, including education and training obligations, is legally required. Second, everybody has the right to be treated fairly and respectfully.
Meeting Your Positive Duty for Workplace Sexual Harassment Training
The Sentrient legally endorsed online courses for workplace sexual harassment and discrimination and Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment for Managers enable you to deliver on your legal obligation to educate your staff and managers on sexual harassment prevention, including how to identify, report, and resolve incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace and how to contribute to a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace.
The workplace sexual harassment awareness course is for employees, contractors, and volunteers. It can be completed as stand-alone training or as part of the full Sentrient online workplace compliance solution. The sexual harassment 15-minute online training is simple to navigate, easy to understand, and has audio options to accommodate all learning styles. Learners will undertake case studies and progressive checks for understanding to reinforce the importance of preventing sexual harassment and sex-based harassment in the workplace. At the end of the course, there is a learning check and a final declaration that your staff will commit to a workplace culture that treats people fairly and respectfully.
The sexual harassment training in the workplace is legally compliant, updated with legislation for all states and territories in Australia, and written in collaboration with Mills Oakley Lawyers for Australia and Simpson Grierson Lawyers for New Zealand.
Sexual Harassment Training for Staff
The legally endorsed online sexual harassment course for staff meets the Respect@Work guidelines for best practice education and training for your staff and managers.
The sexual harassment online course for board members, employees, contractors, new hires, remote employees, staff, and volunteers includes:
- Sexual harassment and the law.
- Types of behaviour that are sexual harassment and gender-based harassment.
- Impacts of sexual harassment, gender-based harassment, discrimination, and victimisation on the grounds of sex.
- How to identify, report, and resolve incidents of sexual harassment and sex-based harassment in the workplace, including actions as an active bystander.
- Responsibility to treat people fairly and with respect in the workplace.
The legislative changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth), and the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth) resulting from the amendments arising from the Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Act 2021 (Respect at Work) are covered by the content of the Sentrient sexual harassment prevention for staff and the Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment for Managers online training courses.
Duration of Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
This sexual harassment prevention training course will take 15 minutes to complete.
Learner Experience in Online Sexual Harassment Training
This online sexual harassment training course is simple to navigate, easy to understand and has audio options to accommodate all learning styles. Learners will undertake case studies and learning activities to reinforce the importance of preventing sexual harassment and gender-based harassment from taking place in the workplace. At the end of the course, there is a learning check and a final declaration that everyone will commit to a respectful workplace culture that treats people fairly and with respect.
Learning Outcomes from Sexual Harassment Course
The following learning outcomes will be achieved upon completion of this sexual harassment online course:
- Understand sexual harassment, sex-based harassment and the law.
- Recognise the different types of behaviour, such as sexual harassment and gender-based harassment.
- Be aware of the impacts of sexual harassment and gender-based harassment in the workplace.
- Explain why prevention is better than cure.
- Know how to identify, report, and resolve incidents of sexual harassment and gender-based harassment in the workplace, including actions as an active bystander.
- Contribute to a respectful workplace culture that treats people fairly and with respect.
Business Outcomes from Sexual Harassment Training In The Workplace
Once your staff and managers have completed the sexual harassment prevention online course, the following business outcomes will be achieved:
- Reduce the incidents of sexually-related unprofessional conduct in your workplace.
- Mitigate the risk of legal liability associated with unlawful behaviour in relation to sexual harassment and gender-based harassment in the workplace.
- Protect your reputation from the damage caused by incidents of misconduct in the workplace, such as sexual harassment, gender-based harassment, conduct that contributes to a hostile workplace on the grounds of sex, discrimination and victimisation on the grounds of sex.
- Present a vision for all workers to do the right thing.
- Increase engagement by supporting a workplace culture that treats people fairly and with respect.
- Gain a competitive advantage by becoming an employer of choice.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Find answers to common questions about our online sexual harassment prevention training, including course content, legal compliance, certification, enrolment, and workplace obligations.
Awareness training tells people what harassment is. Prevention training goes further: it covers the legal framework, how to identify and report incidents, how to intervene as a bystander, and everyone's shared responsibility to prevent it. This course does both, which is what your positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) requires. Awareness alone will not satisfy a regulator.
Sexual harassment and the law; the behaviours that constitute sexual and gender-based harassment; conduct that creates a hostile workplace on the grounds of sex; the impact of harassment, discrimination and victimisation; how to identify, report and resolve incidents, including acting as an active bystander; and your responsibility to treat people fairly and with respect. Real-world case studies run throughout.
15 minutes. It is deliberately built as micro-learning, so you can get an entire workforce through it without disrupting operations, and so people finish it rather than abandoning it halfway.
Yes. Every learner receives a completion certificate. They finish the course with a learning check and a signed declaration committing to a respectful workplace, and completion is recorded against their name and date. So, you get two things: a certificate for the individual, and verifiable, audit-ready records for the organisation showing exactly who was trained and when.
This is a legally endorsed compliance course, written in collaboration with Mills Oakley Lawyers (Australia) and Simpson Grierson Lawyers (New Zealand) and aligned to Respect@Work best-practice guidance. It is not accredited VET training delivered by a Registered Training Organisation, and for meeting your positive duty, it does not need to be. What regulators look for is evidence that you delivered current, legally sound training and kept records of it.
Pricing depends on how many learners you need to train and whether you take the course on its own or as part of the full Sentrient workplace compliance solution. Book a free course demo, and we will give you an exact quote for your team size.
Managers should complete this course, but not only this course. They carry extra legal responsibility for receiving and responding to complaints, so they should also take our separate Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment course for managers and supervisors. The two are designed to be taken together.
Immediately. The course deploys the same day and takes 15 minutes per person, so most organisations have their entire workforce trained and their compliance records in order within a week of starting.
Yes. It is kept up to date with legislation for every Australian state and territory and for New Zealand, including the Respect@Work amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth), the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth). You do not have to track the changes - we maintain the content for you.
Yes. Run it through the Sentrient compliance management platform or import it into the LMS you already use. Either way, you keep completion records against every learner.
Simple to navigate, easy to understand, and available on any device with audio options to suit different learning styles and accessibility needs. Learners work through real-life case studies and progressive checks for understanding, then complete a final learning check and declaration, so it is participation, not passive video-watching.
Fewer incidents; a materially reduced risk of legal liability for unlawful conduct; protection of your reputation from the damage a public incident causes; higher engagement from a workforce that sees respect taken seriously; and a genuine advantage as an employer of choice. The cost of one mishandled complaint dwarfs the cost of training everyone.
It works as a standalone training or as part of the full Sentrient compliance solution, alongside closely related courses like workplace bullying, equal employment opportunity, psychological health and safety, and code of conduct. Running them as a single program is cheaper and far easier to track than running each in isolation.
No, and that is deliberate. This staff course teaches everyone how to identify and report harassment. How to receive a complaint, respond to it and support a formal investigation is covered in a separate course for managers and supervisors, because those responsibilities sit with your leaders, not your whole workforce.
No law names a specific course, but the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) places a positive duty on you to take reasonable and proportionate steps to eliminate sexual harassment and training your workers is a core way of demonstrating you have done so. Doing nothing is the risk.
It flips your obligation from reactive to proactive. You are no longer just required to handle complaints when they arrive; you must actively take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, sex-based harassment, hostile workplaces, sex discrimination and victimisation from occurring at all.
Annually is standard in most Australian organisations, plus whenever legislation changes and whenever someone new joins. At 15 minutes, an annual refresh is realistic rather than aspirational.
