Retail and hospitality: Understanding and eliminating work-related sexual harassment
Changes to the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) require all organisations and businesses to take steps to eliminate work-related sexual harassment. This includes providing relevant education and training for all workers.
In Australia, work-related sexual harassment is widespread: it occurs in every industry, in every location and at every level. But the risk in the retail and hospitality sectors is especially high.
This course is designed specifically for people working in retail and hospitality. It draws on our Guidelines for Complying with the Positive Duty under the Sex Discrimination Act [PDF, 3.07 MB) and incorporates recently published research on sexual harassment in the Australian retail and hospitality sectors.
This eLearning course will support your workers to create safer and more respectful workplaces.
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Delivery mode: eLearning
Access eLearning on demand, anytime, and anywhere. This course is suitable for large corporations as well as small and medium-sized businesses in the retail and hospitality sector.
- Completion time: 3 hours
- Cost: $5 (+GST) administration fee per person
- Invitation and registration services provided (if required)
- Certificates of completion provided.
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Learning outcomes
By completing this course, learners will be able to:
- Define work-related sexual harassment
- List different behaviours that could count as work-related sexual harassment
- Identify how common work-related sexual harassment is
- Outline the impacts of work-related sexual harassment on individuals, workplaces and the wider community
- Describe the societal drivers and environmental risk factors for work-related sexual harassment
- Recognise who is responsible for eliminating work-related sexual harassment
- Outline the Guiding Principles and Standards for eliminating work-related sexual harassment.
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Cost information
As the regulator, the Australian Human Rights Commission is committed to providing free and low-cost educational materials about work-related sexual harassment and the Positive Duty to businesses and organisations. The small fee attached to this course covers only our administration costs in providing this course.
Why choose us?
For over three decades, we’ve been delivering education and training to help organisations across Australia embrace equity, diversity and inclusion. We teach people to understand human rights in educational, workplace and community settings.
- We’re subject matter experts: As Australia’s national human rights institution with a proud 35-year history of promoting and protecting human rights, we have a sophisticated understanding about how to prevent sexual harassment.
- We use a rights-based framework: All our training activities are developed from a rights-based perspective, ensuring course content aligns with all relevant rights, legislation and international conventions.
- We’re flexible: We work with our clients to tailor content to suit their specific needs.
Get started
Ready to upskill your team? To access the course, contact: training@humanrights.gov.au.