Sexual Harassment: What Managers Need to Do Certification

Managers are often the first people staff turn to when something goes wrong at work, which is why sexual harassment training for managers matters. How they behave, what they let pass and how they respond when someone speaks up can protect their team, and it forms part of their employer’s legal defence.

The Employment Rights Act 2025 requires employers to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, and makes them liable for harassment of their staff by third parties, such as customers and clients. Training managers is one of the clearest ways to show those steps are being taken.

This Sexual Harassment: What Managers Need to Do course gives managers and supervisors the knowledge and confidence to prevent harassment in their teams and respond well when someone discloses it. It covers spotting early warning signs, challenging inappropriate behaviour before it escalates, handling a disclosure sensitively, and protecting the person who reported from victimisation.

The course is based on the law in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has separate equality legislation, but the principles of prevention and response are relevant to managers across the UK.

Key topics in our Sexual Harassment: What Managers Need to Do course:

• What counts as sexual harassment under the Equality Act 2010
• Employers’ legal duties to prevent sexual harassment
• Recognising the early signs of harassment in a team
• Higher-risk situations and how to manage them
• Setting the standard and challenging inappropriate behaviour
• Responding to a disclosure
• Recording, escalating and preventing victimisation

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