Equality, diversity and inclusion training
Since 2024, employers have a legal duty to prevent workplace harassment, not just respond to it. Hazel Hall and the team deliver practical, tailored training that meets that duty properly.
Equality, diversity and inclusion training
Developed by Hazel Hall, Get Ahead’s HR expert and Regional Director for Kent & East Sussex, bringing two decades of senior HR experience, including a spell on the leadership team of a global engineering company through a venture capital-backed buyout, and recognition of her organisation’s work with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
Since the Worker Protection Act 2024, preventing sexual harassment at work isn’t something a business can simply respond to after the fact, employers now carry a proactive legal duty to prevent it happening. That changes what “doing EDI training” actually needs to mean: not an annual box-ticked video nobody remembers by lunchtime, but real, practical preparation, tailored to your team and delivered by someone who understands both the law and how growing businesses actually operate.
Hazel’s sessions cover the ground that matters in practice: the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 and the four types of unlawful behaviour, direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and victimisation, plus the everyday biases (affinity bias, gender role assumptions, age bias) that quietly shape who gets heard and who gets opportunities, often without anyone intending harm. Recent tribunal cases make the cost of getting this wrong concrete: one 18-year-old employee was awarded over £50,000 after persistent inappropriate remarks from her manager went unaddressed. Prevention isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s considerably cheaper than the alternative.
A central part of the training is bystander intervention, a practical framework for what colleagues can actually do in the moment: address behaviour directly, distract to defuse a situation, delegate to someone with authority, or delay and check in with the person affected afterwards. It gives a team concrete tools, not just awareness.
This works as a standalone session or as part of a wider HR Foundations or HR Confidence engagement, and forms part of Get Ahead’s broader Workplace Culture and Leadership Training work for growing businesses who want compliance and genuine culture built together, not treated as separate problems.
Why choose Get Ahead for equality and diversity training?
Generic e-learning ticks a compliance box. What it doesn’t do is reflect your actual team, your actual policies, or the specific pressures of a growing business. Hazel delivers this training herself, live, grounded in real HR experience and current law, so what your team learns is something they’ll actually use, not something they’ll forget by the following week.
Speak to us about a bespoke approach, book a call with Hazel.
If you think you could benefit from our equality and diversity training services, we’d love to hear from you. Complete our contact form or call our head office – we’ll connect you with your local regional director.
