While companies of all kinds have sexual harassment and sexual violence prevention policies on the books, and they’re required by law to provide a safe work environment, widespread problems are still present.
It’s worth asking what more you could be doing to strengthen your own workplace culture against these incidents. One common issue is that there are rules in place against harassment, but workers haven’t been given practical information about how to act on those values.
This is where bystander intervention training can make a real difference. By briefing workers on the types of real-life harassment or sexual assault incidents they might witness, then giving them actions to take in these cases, a bystander intervention program is practical to the core.
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