Although you may feel that you treat people equally, sometimes your actions might be perceived differently by others, and lead them to feel uncomfortable or discriminated against.
In 2010, the UK Government passed the Equality Act, which provides protection against various types of discrimination in respect of nine key characteristics. That means that making employment decisions or treating people differently based on stereotypes isn't just bad for business, it's illegal.
Our Equality & Diversity in the Workplace Course will help your employees to understand what steps to take to prevent discrimination and harassment across various business activities including recruitment, training and promotion.
We also offer a similar course for managers entitled Equality & Diversity for Managers.
This course will prepare your employees to:
This course is part of our Compliance Essentials Course Library.
Compliance Essentials is our best-selling library and there's a reason for that.
Essentials contains 30 in-depth courses and dozens of express micro-learning modules from AML, Bribery, GDPR and Equality to Health and Safety. It provides a complete and comprehensive off-the-shelf compliance solution for UK businesses that can be customised completely to fit your organisation.
| Duration | Approximately 30 minutes |
| Audience | Suitable for all staff - examples and interactivities designed for staff at all levels |
| Prerequisites | No previous knowledge or experience required |
| Design | SHARD-compliant, responsive display on all devices, accessibility on screen readers, visual design controlled via client style sheet |
| Assessment | Ten-question assessment |
| Test-out | Ability to offer optional test-out, whereby users can choose to skip the course content and complete the learning assignment simply by passing the assessment Deployment AICC and SCORM 1.2-compliant, suitable for both hosted and deployed SCORM or AICC |
| Deployment | AICC and SCORM 1.2-compliant, suitable for both hosted and deployed SCORM or AICC |
| Compatibility | All Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android (Flash-free for mobile compatibility) |
| Tailoring | Fully customisable on Skillcast Portal CMS |
| Translation | Pre-translated versions not available, but all text content can be exported for translation into all languages |
| Localisation | Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary |
Our off-the-shelf subscription options allow you to train your staff using this course and other essential compliance courses cost-effectively.
We can also customise courses to your business needs or create fully bespoke courses to your specification.
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