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Worker Protection Act 2023: The Reasonable Steps Defence

Overview

A 6-module course covering the 2024 EHRC reasonable-steps duty. The learner runs through a sexual-harassment scenario across complaint intake, evidence triage, risk matrix, budget-constrained controls, off-premises events, and reversed hot-seat investigation. Approximately 155 minutes total. Course delivered in English.

Target Audience:

HR business partners, in-house counsel, line managers, EHRC-facing compliance officers, and senior managers at any UK employer.

Features and USPs:

The course helps learners to understand the scope and impact of the legislation and also to work through the regulation as it appears in the workplace. Learners experience the cause?and?effect of their decisions and are supported with immediate feedback. The course helps to build situational awareness, practical judgment, confidence and real?world problem?solving skills.

This interactive and adaptive online course is designed to turn a complex legislative topic into a memorable, actionable learning experience. Using a dynamic “choose your own adventure” format, the course adapts to the learner’s choices within a relatable workplace scenario.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and respond to a sexual harassment complaint under the new duty
  • Build a reasonable-steps risk register that survives EHRC scrutiny
  • Allocate a constrained controls budget to the highest-risk vectors
  • Conduct an investigation that meets ACAS Code of Practice 1
  • Engage with off-premises and third-party events under the duty
  • Defend an investigation against a respondent procedural challenge