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Business Compliance Essentials Training
This Business Compliance Essentials Training course covers the key parts of business compliance and relevant legislation. It provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow introduction to the essential areas you need knowledge of to help your organisation stay safe and compliant; including information on Data Protection, Cyber Security, Fraud Prevention, Modern Slavery and much more.
4.6/5 based on 373 course reviews
Learning outcomes
- Understand how non-compliance and negligence could impact your organisation
- Understand the importance of legislative compliance
- Familiarise yourself with the key UK regulations
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 8 sections
- 1 Cyber Security
- 2 UK GDPR
- 3 Anti-Bribery
- 4 Anti-Money Laundering
- 5 Fraud
- 6 Modern Slavery
- 7 Whistleblowing
- 8 Environmental Awareness
SECTION 1
The course starts by talking about Cyber Security. The aim of this section is to look at how breaches can happen, and how they can be prevented.
SECTION 2
This section looks at the way personal data should be handled and why it's a legal requirement to use it properly.
SECTION 3
This section takes a look at bribery, at how an individual, and an organisation, can be affected by it, and what can be done to prevent it.
SECTION 4
This section explores what money laundering is and how it isn’t just about money, and can be about any type of asset.
SECTION 5
The Fraud Act identifies fraud as one offence that can be committed in three separate ways - these are explained in this section of the course.
SECTION 6
It may be difficult to believe, but the unethical practice of modern slavery is still happening today. This section explores how we can move to eradicate it.
SECTION 7
This section explains what whistleblowing is, when it should be done, and the laws surrounding whistleblowing and why it should be encouraged in workplaces.
SECTION 8
All businesses are legally required to manage waste responsibly. This section of the course informs the user of their obligations.
About this course
Every employee in an organisation should have a solid understanding of business compliance - our course provides the basic foundations of how to work towards compliance with topics including Data Protection (GDPR), Fraud, Money-Laundering, and others.
It's the perfect course for new starters or if you're looking to bring staff up to speed with important compliance topics quickly and cost-effectively.
This training course offers general guidance that will help employees at all levels to understand their responsibilities under current legislation.
If you are looking to offer your staff more in-depth training on particular subjects, each subject within this course is also available as a full, separate course. See our Business Compliance Training library for a full list of our Business Compliance Courses.
The importance of Business Compliance Essentials Training
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Business Compliance Training certificate
Download and print
Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Business Compliance Essentials Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Business Compliance Essentials Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
373 real user reviews
Videos are unnecessarily slow
I did eventually find the transcript, which made it 3x faster. I like the testing and the script is clear and simple - but the video is just a waste of time.
very informative course
Think all company's should use IHASCO training more so for younger generation
Very good
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Thorough course
Course formulated to be understood by a large audience.
Easy to follow and informative
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Straight forward and clear to understand
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
good and well informed
good all over view on traning
Very interesting and clear.
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
This Business Compliance Essentials Training programme is designed to be a starting point for organisations looking to train their staff in business compliance, providing them with sufficient knowledge in some of the most key pieces of corporate legislation. Some of the regulations this course looks to cover are:
Business benefits
From a business point of view, commitment to compliance is essential for avoiding negligence and non-compliance. This training informs staff on legislation that they must comply with and does so in easily-digestible bitesize chunks.
It's your duty, as a business owner or responsible person, to educate your workforce on legislation that is relevant to their job role.
This training can not only help your organisation with compliance, but it can boost the confidence of your employees, as they'll get a better understanding of the regulations that apply to them and how they can better approach daily tasks.
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