In Company Training in preventing Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

If you are an employer or manager, you have an obligation to protect your workers from bullying, harassment and sexual harassment in the workplace. Your responsibility extends to the behaviour of non-employees with whom your employees come into contact in the course of their work, and to work related events, which happen outside the workplace. The penalty for not taking this problem seriously can include unhappy workers, decrease in productivity, the payment of compensation and legal costs and unwelcome publicity.

Forthcoming seminar on preventing and dealing with Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Because of our awareness of the devastating impact of sexual harassment can have on the victim, and our commitment to preventing this serious problem, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in 1988 developed a training programme to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.

Our training programme was revised, updated and expanded in 1998 to take account of developments including legislative changes, and to address the related issues of harassment and bullying.

The training programme is designed to be used with management, with human resources professionals and with employees. The training addresses the needs of each particular group and workplace and includes:

• Defining bullying, harassment and sexual harassment
• The effects of harassment on the individual and on the company
• The legal issues
• Drawing up a policy and procedures
• Implementing a policy and procedures
• Guidelines for managers in dealing with harassment
• Introducing the policy to the employees
• Skills for those investigating an allegation of harassment

The programme includes the use of a video, which was specially commissioned by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre to illustrate and deal with the problem of sexual harassment in the Irish context.

Feel free to contact us for more information at etadmin@rcc.ie.