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Take steps to prevent sexual harassment
Do the three starting steps every employer is expected to take: a policy, a risk assessment and training.
What you'll need: Someone to own the risk assessment.
Since 26 October 2024 every employer must take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their staff.
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The equality watchdog expects a policy, a risk assessment and training. Preventing sexual harassment walks you through all three. EHRC: preventing sexual harassment at work
Do the three starting steps
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Step 1: Go to Compliance, Preventing sexual harassment, and press Start the policy.
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Step 2: Press Edit the draft, make it yours, publish it, then Ask everyone to read it.
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Step 3: Press Start the assessment.
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Its tasks go to My tasks.
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Step 4: Press Add the course, and give it to your staff in Training.
Keep it up
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Step 1: Each year, press Review it again on the risk assessment.
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Step 2: When someone reports harassment, it's a case: press Open cases to see them.
Stuck?
It says the risk assessment is already under way
It started already. Its tasks are in My tasks.
The audit says our harassment policy predates the law
It was last published before 26 October 2024. Review it, and publish it again.
Staff haven't read the policy
Press Ask everyone again, or see who hasn't accepted it under Settings, Privacy notice and policies.
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Not legal advice. Checked against the law on 1 November 2026; we check it again by 1 April 2027, and sooner if the law changes.