Ensure your workforce is committed to health and safety via our frontline-focused training and engagement App.
This online platform delivers key health and safety training to you and your staff in bite-sized chunks from anywhere, at any time, even from their smart phone. This informal delivery method is an easy and effective way of fitting training around daily life.
What’s included?
Health & Safety Course for Managers & Directors
Our suite of microlearning courses is focused on behavioural leadership, designed to equip managers and directors with the skills they need to ensure everyone understands how important health and safety is. It covers:
- Why should we care about health and safety?
- Implications of accidents for managers and directors
- Understanding safety culture
- Driving a positive safety culture
There’s also the option to customise the training available via the app, meaning you can deliver targeted content for different areas of the workforce.
The benefits:
- Allows you and your workforce to brush up on important health and safety topics
- Complete courses quickly and conveniently, on the go, without impacting your daily responsibilities
- Managers and directors can fulfil health and safety responsibilities and look after staff effectively
- Learn how to improve health and safety culture and performance
Key features:
- Easy to use, impactful and engaging
- Accessible by anyone, anywhere, at anytime
- Easily digestible bite-sized training content
- Assess uptake and effectiveness via insights available
It’s quick and easy to get started
The general position in relation to toilet access is that trans employees should be free to use whichever facilities they feel are appropriate for their gender identity. However, issues relating to gender identity can present challenges for HR, especially where other employees raise concerns, for example due to gender critical beliefs.
From an employer’s perspective, it is important to communicate your policy and approach to trans related matters appropriately and clearly. Where differences of opinion arise between employees, you will need to handle the situation sensitively and a process of discussion, explanation of expectations and training will be needed, with due respect for confidentiality for all concerned. As regards the issue of toilet provision at work, note that trans employees should not be instructed to use the disabled toilets, nor should they be instructed to use facilities that do not suit them. If possible, providing a unisex facility (i.e. a self-contained lockable cubicle with toilet, basin, bin, mirror, ceiling to floor walls) can be helpful to offer employees more choice and help to avoid clashes of ‘protected characteristics’ as defined in the equality legislation.
Case law on the rights of trans employees and also those with gender critical beliefs under equality law is continuing to evolve and we will of course keep our members up-to-date on key developments. For example, it will be interesting to see the outcomes of two cases in the EAT this year (Bailey v Stonewall and Randall v Trent College). The definition of sex in the Equality Act has also come under scrutiny during the general election campaign as the Conservative Party has committed in its manifesto to clarifying that the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, with the aim of protecting single sex spaces and the provision of single sex services.
Given the complexities of this area of law, we recommend that HR and managers attend detailed training on how to support trans employees in the workplace. We also recommend general awareness training for your wider workforce. Make UK can provide both of these types of training - please contact us for further information.
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