From 30 October 2026, the law on workplace harassment will change significantly.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA) will raise the current duty to prevent harassment from taking “reasonable steps” to taking “all reasonable steps” and will introduce a new standalone liability for employers where their workers are harassed by third parties, such as customers, clients or contractors.
For employers, this means a materially higher compliance bar, a new category of tribunal claim, and far less room to rely on the reactive, complaint-led approach to harassment that many workplaces still operate today.
To support employers in meeting the new mandatory duty to prevent harassment, we have developed a Worker Protection Compliance Toolkit.
This Toolkit includes the template documents listed below to enable you to identify the risks of harassment of your workers in the workplace, by other workers and third parties. This then allows you to consider and put in place bespoke reasonable steps, that address the risks that you have identified, to evidence that you have taken a pro-active approach, in limiting the risks of harassment in the workplace.
- Risk assessments which you can tailor to your business, sector and the working environment. The risk assessment allows for both historic and anticipatory risks to be assessed and includes a scoring matrix to allow you to determine the level of risk and the types of reasonable steps that you could introduce. To assist you in this exercise, the template risk assessment includes scenario based case examples of different types of harassment that could occur in the workplace, setting out the risk factors and the types of reasonable steps that could be taken. The easy to follow scenario based case examples, can be used to complete the template risk assessment, by applying a similar thought process to the type of risks and preventative steps, so that it is bespoke to your organisation.
- Harassment monitoring form that flows from the risk assessment and ensures that you are continuing to monitor and evaluate on an ongoing basis the risks and preventative steps.
- Harassment policy which is compliant with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHCR) technical guidance.
- Training slide deck to deliver to line managers which can be easily tailored to address the risks and preventative steps identified in your risk assessment.
- Internal communication to the Board.
- Internal communication to all staff from the Board.
- External communication to third parties and template contractual clause.
- Business checklist covering the key areas of the business that you should be considering to identify risks, which then feed into your risk assessment.
The Worker Protection Compliance Toolkit will save you time, money and give you a head start in ensuring that your organisation is taking the necessary steps to ensure compliance.
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