A changing world means changing how we relate and behave toward one another. That which was acceptable yesterday may no longer be acceptable today. This course is intended to introduce basic concepts of society’s current interpretation of workplace violence and harassment and how organizations might adopt those principles and eliminate these damaging behaviours from the workplace.
Who needs this training?
Everyone in an organization is required to abide by policies relating to workplace violence and harassment. This would include
- workers,
- frontline supervisors,
- managers and
- program administrators.
This course will introduce and define terms associated with workplace violence and harassment. Employers will be shown the necessary structure and elements of a Workplace Violence and Harassment program. It will also set out what workers need to understand about how to identify, report on and control undesirable behaviours in the workplace.
50 minute average runtime
Workplace Violence & Harassment Training Modules
Most provinces have specific Regulations requiring hazard assessments, policy creation and training of employees for preventing workplace violence. Some provinces (e.g. Nova Scotia, Saskatechewan) only require this “if necessary”, or “as required” or similar wording. Manitoba's are most recent, effective August 31, 2011. Check out our Manitoba Introduces new regulations for prevention of violence in the workplace blog.
However even if the Health and Safety Regulations are silent either on workplace violence (e.g. New Brunswick, Quebec), or harassment (Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) this will not stop the authorities coming down hard on an employer following an incident under their 'General Duties of Employers' clauses. Training employees using this course should be an effective Due Diligence defense against such charges. For more information on due diligence please refer to our course on this topic.
As the last paragraph illustrates, regulations pertaining to workplace violence and harassment vary from one province to the next and then again in federally regulated workplaces. For convenience Olelearning has captured Workplace Violence and Harassment Regulations which can be reviewed by province and for Federally Regulated workplaces.
Most enterprises will need to develop specific policies and procedures for WHV. We can help with this. Just phone us or send us an email and we can explain how. At the simplest level this could mean we send you generic sample policies to use as a base for your own. You can then hold a training session where you explain your own specific policies and procedues to your staff, then they can take our course on their own. This course is very extensive including many custom videos shot to illustrate both the harassment and violence aspects of the course.
Our most popular option is where we take your policies and procedures in a PowerPoint or text format and embed them into our online training program. This program is further customised to your own style including logos and contact information. Your employees can then be trained using our facilities. Please contact us for further details.
The WVH Video is also available as a tool to educate large numbers of employees in general safety sessions or for induction of new employees.
