Workplace Bullying Training for Northern Irish Employees

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Workplace Bullying Ensure your team is compliant with our comprehensive Workplace Bullying training. Designed for Northern Irish businesses, our course covers bullying prevention, reporting procedures, and maintaining a positive work culture.

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Overview

All Employees Deserve a Workplace Free From Bullying and Harassment

All employees have the right to a work environment that is free from bullying and harassment. Everyone should go to work knowing that they will be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace.

Bullying and harassment of any kind should not be tolerated, whether employees work at a fixed location, at home or on the move. Both employees and employers have a role to play in promoting a positive workplace culture free from bullying.

Legal Island has created a Workplace Bullying eLearning training course specifically for all employees in Northern Ireland to enable your organisation to raise awareness of bullying and harassment in the workplace and explain what to do if employees are concerned about bullying.

What's Included

What’s Included: Workplace Bullying Training in Northern Ireland

Our Workplace Bullying training for Northern Ireland companies aims to raise awareness of bullying in the workplace and equip employers and employees with the tools they need to prevent bullying in the workplace.

The course will focus on bullying behaviour identification by clarifying what is classed as bullying and what is not. It will also highlight the different forms of bullying and explain how to report a case of bullying.

Legal Island’s course for preventing bullying at work was designed specifically for organisations based in Northern Ireland by a team of bullying and harassment experts and lawyers.

Topics covered include:

What is (and what is not) bullying at work
What is harassment at work
What are the effects of bullying at work
How to prevent bullying at work
Bullying reporting procedures and what employees should do if they are concerned about bullying in their organisation

This course has been recently updated and now includes the most recent bullying statistics from Northern Ireland, a new ‘Meet the colleagues’ section, and information on how artificial intelligence can impact workplace bullying.

Should you have a particular need to brand or tailor any of our courses to your specific requirements, that is no problem at all. We offer a full bespoke service in-house. If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact our eLearning Sales Manager, Debbie Wilson - debbie@legal-island.com

Background

Understanding Bullying & Harassment at Work

Defining Bullying at Work

Bullying is not specifically defined in Northern Irish law. However, the Labour Relations Agency (LRA) explain bullying as:

“Where one person or persons engage in unwanted conduct in relation to another person, which has the purpose or effect of violating that person’s dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for that person.”

Understanding Harassment at Work

It is important that your employees also recognise what is not bullying at work. In order to do this, it is essential to distinguish bullying from other inappropriate workplace behaviour, such as harassment. It is also important to clearly define what is deemed as appropriate workplace engagement and explain the importance of effective workplace conflict management.

In contrast to bullying, the unreasonable behaviour defined as harassment is based on an employee’s race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or national origin.

If you are interested in Workplace Harrasment training specifically, Legal Island offers a Workplace Harrasment eLearning course. This eLearning course offers comprehensive training on preventing and addressing workplace and sexual harassment.

Impact of Bullying at Work

Legal Island’s workplace bullying course also covers bullying impact training, which will offer insight into the impacts of bullying within the workplace, both for the company and for impacted employees.

Workplace bullying can severely impact the mental health of people working within your company. Victims of workplace bullying tend to experience higher levels of stress, anxiety, and panic attacks, decreased levels of motivation, and lower self-esteem.

For your company, this can lead to issues such as absenteeism, low staff morale, and high levels of staff turnover.

It is estimated that 18.9 million workdays are lost in the UK each year because of bullying, at a cost of approximately £18 billion to businesses annually. This statistic highlights bullying at work can also have significant effects on the organisation.

(Source: Investopedia)

Providing all staff with anti-bullying and employee rights training will ensure a workplace where any conflicts or issues are dealt with fairly and effectively.

Strategies to Prevent Bullying at Work

Legal Island’s Bullying training for Northern Ireland companies will include a bullying prevention course that will highlight various strategies to prevent bullying at work.

The course will highlight the importance of building a positive workplace culture, having effective leaders and team meetings, a clear and enforced bullying and harassment policy, and the importance of effective communication within the workplace.

In order to promote a workplace that is free from bullying, it is essential to send a clear message of zero tolerance to behaviours that are deemed bullying and harassment within the workplace, ensuring employees are aware of the repercussions of their actions.

Importance of Training

Employees Deserve to Feel Safe, Valued & Included

It is vital that all employees have an understanding of what bullying is and how to address it. Everyone has the right to work in an environment that is free from bullying and harassment, where they feel safe, valued, and included.

Our Bullying Awareness training for companies in Northern Ireland will not only help you safeguard the well-being and satisfaction of your employees but also help with the overall success of your company and ensure you comply with the current laws on workplace bullying.

Who needs this training?

Legal Island has created a Workplace Bullying eLearning training course specifically for all employees in Northern Ireland to enable your organisation to raise awareness of bullying and harassment in the workplace and explain what to do if employees are concerned about bullying.

Course Duration

How long does our Workplace Bullying Training take?

The course will take no longer than 45 minutes to complete, including a final assessment and certificate of completion.

Roles and responsibilities

Roles to help stop bullying in the workplace

As well as the provision of awareness training for all employees as mentioned above, the Code outlines the requirement for the appointed Contact and Nominated person/s to have a full and clear understanding of their role, as well as their duties and obligations under the Code.

Legal Island has created a training course for both the Contact and Nominated person, designed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to fulfill your role.

Role of a Contact Person

We also offer Workplace Bullying Training for Irish businesses on the ‘role of a contact person’. This course will raise awareness of bullying and explain the role of a contact person in resolving bullying in an organisation.

The Code of Practice states that there is value in appointing a contact person to act as the first step for anyone enquiring about a possible bullying case. Their role is to help employees clarify what they are experiencing and empower them to decide what course of action, if any, they may wish to take.

The role can be crucial, as it often helps to resolve matters earlier and more effectively.

What's covered?

What is bullying at work
What are the effects of bullying at work
How to handle reports of workplace bullying
How to prevent bullying at work
The role of a contact person in resolving bullying at work

Role of a Nominated Person

We also offer training for the ‘role of nominated person’ to raise awareness of bullying and explain the role of this person in resolving bullying within an organisation.
The nominated person plays a very important role and is pivotal in altering bullying cultures and handling complaints effectively. An employer will nominate a person who has had appropriate training and is familiar with the procedures involved to deal with the complaint on behalf of the organisation.

What's covered?

What is bullying at work
What are the effects of bullying at work
How to handle reports of workplace bullying
How to prevent bullying at work
The role of a nominated person in resolving bullying at work

Key Statistics

Why learn with Legal Island?

We take huge pride in the training we deliver across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our key statistics show:

97%

of users said they found the courses beneficial for their organisation

96%

of users said they found the courses convenient and easy to use

96%

of users said their knowledge of the compliance topic area improved

96%

of users said they would recommend our eLearning courses to other organisations

750,000 +

hours of training and course content delivered

200,000 +

employees across the island of Ireland have now benefitted from our services

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