Compliance Training For Board of Directors

Compliance training for board of directors is a set of short online courses that an organisation assigns to its directors and officers, so they understand the workplace laws they oversee. Sentrient courses cover safety, whistleblowing, conflicts of interest, bribery and fraud, privacy and cyber security, and leave a record of who completed each one.

Yes. Sentrient courses are created with Mills Oakley in Australia and Simpson Grierson in New Zealand, and are kept up to date with legislation across Australian states and territories. Most also cover New Zealand. Conflicts of Interest is written for Australia, and we can confirm each course’s coverage in a demo.

Most boards rely on a governance course a director completed years ago, an occasional law firm briefing or papers in the board pack, and Sentrient adds short courses that the organisation assigns to each director and tracks. For background, read our guides to managing conflicts of interest and whistleblower policies in Australia.

Sentrient provides short awareness courses that an organisation assigns to its directors, so it is not a company directors course, not accredited or nationally recognised training, not a governance qualification, not legal advice and not a facilitated board workshop. It sits beside governance education, not in place of it. For the wider program, see governance, risk and compliance training.

Work health and safety law expects officers to exercise due diligence, which Safe Work Australia describes as including keeping safety knowledge current and knowing the business’s hazards and risks. Other laws place duties on directors as well. Training supports that knowledge. Your organisation and its directors remain responsible for their duties.

Start with work health and safety, whistleblower rights and protections, and conflicts of interest, because they map most directly to a director’s own duties. Add anti-bribery, corruption and fraud and the sexual harassment course for leaders next, then privacy, cyber security and modern slavery.

Free regulator courses teach an individual board member about one regulator’s rules, while Sentrient gives your organisation one set of workplace compliance courses with a record of which directors completed each. The ACNC’s Governing Charities online learning program, for example, offers free governance courses for charity boards. Both can be used together.

Each course on this page takes about 15 minutes. A director can complete one before a meeting or between other commitments, and the full set of eight takes about two hours in total, spread across the year however the board prefers.

Sentrient recommends that people complete compliance training at induction and on a regular basis afterwards, for example annually. For boards, a new appointment and the annual board calendar are natural points. Your organisation sets the cycle that suits its risks, and remains responsible for that decision.

Yes. Sentrient courses are legally endorsed and created with employment law firms Mills Oakley in Australia and Simpson Grierson in New Zealand. They explain obligations in plain English for a general audience. They are awareness training and do not replace legal advice to the board on a specific matter.

Sentrient reviews its courses regularly and updates them as workplace laws change. Updates are made in the course library, so a director who opens a course next year sees the current version, and the company secretary does not have to commission new briefing papers each time.

A board should be able to show which directors were trained, on what and when. For charities, the ACNC governance standards expect responsible people to act with reasonable care and diligence. Sentrient records each completion. Those records support the organisation’s position, and the organisation and its directors remain responsible.

Yes. You can run the courses on the Sentrient platform or license them for a third-party learning management system that is SCORM-compliant. Inside Sentrient, the learning management system enrols directors and reports on completion across the organisation.

In Sentrient the company secretary or HR team enrols each director in a course or a learning program. Automated notifications and alerts tell directors what is due and by when, and the same alerts remind anyone who has not yet finished, which saves awkward follow-up emails.

Sentrient reports on learning across the organisation, so you can see which directors have completed each course and which have not. Those records help you show the steps the organisation took if an auditor, an insurer or a regulator asks. Your organisation remains responsible for keeping and using them.

Board training is the top layer of one program. The whole workforce completes Compliance Training For Employees, people who lead teams add Compliance Training For Managers, and directors complete the courses on this page. HR teams can use Compliance Training For HR Professionals.

Yes. The courses are designed to be used alongside your policies, so a director learns the general position and then reads the policy the board has approved. Sentrient also offers policy management software, which records policy sign-off beside training in one system.

Yes. The courses are online, so directors in other cities or overseas can complete them without attending a session in person. In a demo you can see the learner experience on the devices your directors use.

Yes. Sentrient keeps its courses up to date with legislation across all Australian states and territories, and most courses also cover New Zealand. A board overseeing operations in several jurisdictions can therefore use one set of courses for all of its directors.

Training records are personal information about your directors, so store and share them with care. The privacy regulator lists staff training on privacy and security obligations among the steps that help protect personal information. Your organisation remains responsible for how it collects, stores and uses learner data.

Sentrient gives a board short, legally endorsed courses created with Mills Oakley and Simpson Grierson, a completion record for every director, and delivery through Sentrient, your own LMS or your HRIS. The same library trains managers and employees, and more than 1,000 organisations use Sentrient.

Organisations of every size and sector use Sentrient, including Engineers Australia, the Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria, Housing Trust and Community Action Gympie. Read how Community Action Gympie uses Sentrient for compliance, with visibility for audit and board reporting.

Sentrient compliance training is priced per user, with plans that scale from a small board to a large organisation. The price depends on how many people you train and which courses you choose, so we prepare a quote tailored to your organisation after a short conversation.

Yes. Book a free 20-minute demo and we will show you the courses, the director’s learner experience and the completion reporting. You can ask about delivery through your own LMS or HRIS, and we will follow up with a quote for your organisation.