Introduction

• To eliminate gender bias and sex-based harassment, organisations need to implement EO policies and processes and explore what goes wrong once they are in place. 
• Negative human factors can intervene when people interact at a personal level, make decisions and rely on cultural norms, policies and processes to ensure equality of opportunity. 
• To move forward, these human factors need to be identified, unpacked and neutralized. Understanding their potential impact and preventing them in the future is essential to creating and maintaining fairness.

Module Objectives

• Explore the ways human factors can compromise and negate our objective policies and merit-based processes, impacting negatively on women at work.
• Identify immediate actions to defuse or counteract negative human factors.
• Identify long-term strategies to pre-empt and prevent negative human factors.
• Determine processes that need to be introduced or tightened-up, in your workplace to pre-empt and prevent the negative impact of human factors. 

• Section A
  A brief introduction to the sample workplace 
• Section B
  • work through Issue 1 - Humour versus sexism 
  • work through Issue 2 - Is gender a risk element? 
  • work through Issue 3 - Customers that cross the line 
• Section C
  Finish by identifying processes and policies for your workplace that could be introduced or tightened-up, to pre-empt and prevent the specific set of human factors listed, each of which has potential to impact negatively.
• Section D
  Definitions of key concepts are provided to assist you in addressing sex-based harassment in the workplace.