High quality practical training, to help employers prevent Sexual Harassment Work and help employers meet all the demands of the Worker Protection Act and take positive, pro-active steps to prevent sexual harassment at work.

What is sexual harassment at work?

Sexual harassment in the workplace is unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that violates dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or offensive environment. Under the Worker Protection Act 2023, UK employers must take all reasonable steps to prevent harassment. Examples include sexual jokes, inappropriate touching, sending explicit content, and persistent unwelcome advances.

What is the Worker Protection Act 2023?

The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023, which came into force on October 26, 2024. It mandates that employers in England, Scotland, and Wales take proactive, “reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment of employees. It shifts the focus from reacting to incidents to actively preventing them.  The Employment Rights Act 2025 builds on this requiring Employers to take, from October 2026, ALL reasonable steps to prevent the sexual harassment of employees. 

What does this mean for Employers?

Taking all reasonable steps is an onerous requirement.  In simple terms employers need to consider and risk assess every possible opportunity and preventive measure and implement accordingly.  As a bare minimum employers will need to evidence, they have robust policies and procedures in place to prevent sexual harassment together with accompanying procedures for workforce training, sexual harassment reporting and investigation.  Employers will need to be able to evidence that all staff have received and understood appropriate training

See our free reference guide for hints and tips on how to comply with the all reasonable steps requirement.

How can employers prevent sexual harassment at work?

Concrew Training have published a guide on 10 things employers can do help prevent sexual harassment at work.  It can be found here.

1. Implement The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Guidance
2. Train Senior Leaders and Develop a Zero Tolerance Approach
3. Develop Robust Policies
4. Train Managers and HR Teams
5. Train Staff
6. Inform Visitors and Contractors
7. Cultivate an Open and Supportive Culture
8. Regular Updating of Policies and Training
9. Monitor and Evaluate Progress
10. Document and Evidence Everything

Training the workforce appropriately is pivotal, Concrew Training support adds gravitas to internal training and development programmes

How do sexual harassment polices prevent benefit employers?

The sheer number of sexual harassment cases, that hit the headlines almost every day, make it clear that sexual harassment is widespread. Indeed, it is probably present, to some degree, in all businesses and organisations.  By having Robust “not acceptable here” policies and stopping all forms of sexual harassment at work helps create a harmonious working environment, improves moral, reduces staff wastage and turnover and helps drive productivity.  Employers also benefit in terms of less time being needed to investigate abuse and the avoidance of the adverse publicity that goes with workplace abuse.

Who needs to be trained and when?

The whole works force requires regular and appropriate training.  All staff should receive appropriate training during their induction period, complemented by annual refresher training on what sexual harassment looks like, how it feels to be abused, the harm it causes and how to report it.  Line managers need additional training at similar frequencies on what to do if sexual harassment is reported to them.  Senior Leaders an HR specialist tasked with investigating sexual harassment, reporting offences, reviewing policy effectiveness, and updating polices will need more specialised training.

Free Resources and Reference Guides from Concrew Training

All Reasonable Steps – Explained

Preventing Sexual Harassment at Work Guide

Bullying and Harassment – Beyond Banter

Dealing with Bullying and Harassment – hints and tips for staff

Sexual Harassment Sanctions and Escalations

Parties and Celebrations – 10 tips to keep everyone safe

Concrew Training has published a range of free reference guides, these can be downloaded in pdf form via the “free Guides” page on our web site and read online via the links below:

How Can Concrew Training Help you?

Concrew Training offers a range of courses to meet your precise needs. Content can be dovetailed to your inhouse policies and procedures.  We offer one-hour whole workforce refresher training courses, to half and one-day courses for managers and investigators.  Content is tailored to you and your prevailing situation.  All our training is high quality and provides high value for money.

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