Compliance Training For Employees

Compliance training for employees is a set of short online courses that an organisation assigns to its workforce, so each person understands their obligations at work. Sentrient courses take about 15 to 20 minutes each, cover topics such as safety, privacy and respectful behaviour, and leave a record of who completed what.

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 all Australian states and territories and in New Zealand. Global versions are available for people employed outside both countries.

Most organisations train employees through face-to-face sessions, slide decks, free government modules or a generic course library, and Sentrient replaces that mix with one legally endorsed library the organisation assigns and tracks. For background, read our guide to the training topics most workplaces cover and the five components of a training program.

Sentrient provides short awareness courses that an organisation assigns to its people, so it is not accredited or nationally recognised training, not a qualification, not legal advice and not a facilitated workshop. This page covers the whole workforce. For the yearly program, see mandatory employee training. Managers, boards, HR teams and teachers need extra courses for their roles.

Australian work health and safety law expects a business to provide the training, information and instruction each worker needs to be safe. One in three workers reported workplace sexual harassment in the 2022 national survey, and employers now carry a positive duty to prevent it. Your organisation remains responsible for deciding what training it needs.

Start with the courses that apply to every role: work health and safety, workplace bullying, sexual harassment, equal employment opportunity and privacy. Add internet and social media, cyber security, and diversity, equity and inclusion next. The same order suits employees, contractors, volunteers and casuals, and you decide which groups receive which courses.

Free government modules teach one person one topic, while Sentrient gives your organisation one library across topics with a record of who has completed each course. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s Online Learning Centre, for example, offers free courses for individual employees and managers. The two can sit side by side.

Each Sentrient course takes about 15 to 20 minutes. People can complete a course in one sitting between tasks, at the start of a shift or from home, which makes it practical to train rostered, part-time and remote employees without taking a team offline for half a day.

Sentrient recommends that people complete compliance training at induction and on a regular basis afterwards, for example annually. Your organisation sets the cycle that suits its risks, its policies and any industry requirements, 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. The courses explain obligations in plain English. They are general awareness training and do not replace legal advice about your own circumstances.

Sentrient reviews its courses regularly and updates them as employment laws change across Australian states and territories and in New Zealand. Because the updates are made in the library, you do not have to rewrite training material each time a law changes.

New starters should complete the core courses early: work health and safety, workplace bullying, sexual harassment, equal employment opportunity, privacy and your code of conduct. Sentrient’s employee induction training page sets out a first-week program, and our article on five steps for training new starters explains how to build one.

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

In Sentrient you enrol people in a course or a learning program, and automated notifications and alerts tell each person what needs to be done and by when. The same alerts act as a reminder for anyone who has not yet completed their assigned learning.

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

Employee training is the base layer that everyone completes, and some roles need more. Sentrient also offers Compliance Training For Managers, with versions of several courses written for supervisors and managers. Start with the whole workforce, then add role-specific courses where the risk is higher.

Yes. Sentrient courses are designed to be used alongside your workplace policies, so people learn the standard and then read how your organisation applies it. Sentrient also offers policy management software, so training and policy sign-off can sit in one system.

Yes. The courses are online and take about 15 to 20 minutes each, so remote, rostered and multi-site employees can complete them without attending a session in person. In a demo you can see the learner experience on the devices your people use.

Yes. Sentrient courses are kept up to date with legislation across all Australian states and territories and in New Zealand, and Global versions are available for people based elsewhere. One library can therefore serve head office, regional sites and overseas teams.

Training records are personal information about your people, so they deserve the same care as other employee records. 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 combines legally endorsed content, a short format people finish and flexible delivery. Courses are created with Mills Oakley and Simpson Grierson, take about 15 to 20 minutes, and run through Sentrient, your own LMS or your HRIS. More than 1,000 organisations across Australia and New Zealand use Sentrient.

Organisations of every size and sector use Sentrient, including Jesuit Social Services, Engineers Australia, the Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria and Roche Diabetes Care Australia. Read how Jesuit Social Services rolled out online training and policy sign-off to its people.

Sentrient compliance training is priced per user, with plans that scale from small teams to large organisations. The price depends on the number of people you train and the 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 walk you through the course library, the learner experience and the reporting. You can ask about delivery through your own LMS or HRIS, and we will follow up with a quote for your organisation.