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  • Human Resources
  • 40 languages
  • 55m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the Equality Act 2010 and learn about protected characteristics
  • Understand the types of discrimination, including direct, indirect, harassment and victimisation
  • Know how to treat others with respect and offer everyone fair access to opportunities

Covered in this EDI course

Course contents

This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training course is broken down into 4 sections:

  1. 1
    The Ideal Workplace
  2. 2
    Unacceptable Behaviour
  3. 3
    The Protected Characteristics
  4. 4
    Practical Improvements

Section 1

In section one of our equality and diversity in the workplace training, we’ll explore why treating people fairly and respectfully is a social and ethical responsibility and why it is so important; we’ll envision the ideal workplace and how it feels to be a part of one, as well as the practical part you can play in making it a reality.

Section 2

In section two, we’ll cover the barriers that can prevent us from creating the ideal workplace and how they can be avoided and resolved. This will cover, unacceptable behaviours like bias, stereotyping, discrimination, harassment and victimisation.

Section 3

In section three of our equality and diversity in the workplace training, we’ll introduce employees to the personal characteristics that are protected from discrimination, and we’ll offer advice on how to treat people fairly and with respect in relation to each characteristic.

Section 4

And in our final section, we’ll come back to the ideal workplace. We’ll touch upon learning about, embracing and celebrating each others’ differences and the business advantages of having a diverse workforce – that values its employees and has structures in place to support each person.

About our equality and diversity course

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are all about treating people fairly and with respect, no matter what their differences may be.

This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training programme looks at how we behave at work and how our behaviour may affect those around us and was created in collaboration with global EDI experts who are CPD certified and recognised by IIRSM and Citation, it addresses the following points:

What issues does the EDI course cover?

It addresses unacceptable behaviour, stereotyping, victimisation and discrimination as well as introduces characteristics protected by The Equality Act – suggesting ways in which to build a more supportive, harmonious workplace.

An open and inclusive workplace has many benefits – both to the organisation and to individuals; such benefits include an increase in morale, better staff retention, and improved company reputation. By the end of our Equality and Diversity course, staff will feel more confident at addressing sensitive issues surrounding equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and we hope they will feel inspired and ready to make a positive difference in their workplace and the wider community.

Why iHASCO?

We believe our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training is the perfect way to make a positive difference in your organisation. This Equality and Diversity training can be completed online in just 1 hour and it provides printable certificates, helping you to show commitment to the Equality Act 2010. It is also CPD accredited and IIRSM & Citation approved for your reassurance.
Want to learn more about EDI? Download our guide to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace, created in partnership with Citation.

How can EDI training raise awareness of and improve EDI?

As a provider of HR compliance training, we’ve noticed a huge increase in the number of training sessions for our Equality and Diversity course…over the last couple of years in particular. It’s great to know that so many workplaces are actively training their staff and raising awareness of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in workplaces. So, how DOES training raise awareness of and improve EDI in the workplace?
Find out here how EDI training helps workplaces

The importance of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) 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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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) 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 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion online 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). These can be accessed at 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 Equality & Diversity Training Certificate will include 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.

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It was very comprehensive

More involved than the last one I took many years ago. It covered just about everything.

great training

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very interesting

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A tedious exercise in box-ticking that drained my will to live.

This training was a masterclass in stating the obvious at glacial pace. It managed to be both patronising and mind-numbingly dull—like being lectured by a PowerPoint on life skills most adults figured out in primary school. A relentless barrage of hollow buzzwords and painfully slow videos, it felt less like learning and more like being punished for someone else's HR quota. If the goal was to make me resent the entire concept of EDI, mission accomplished.

Enjoyable to complete

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Informative course, appreciated the built in breaks as a lot of information to take on board but all relevant.

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Great information. Easy to follow.

Why is Equality and Diversity training important?

Compliance

What does the law say on equality and diversity?

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. The Equality Act 2010 was established to provide a framework for businesses to adhere to the right of employees, and how they are treated in the workplace.

Equality and Diversity is about acknowledging that everybody has a right to fair and equal treatment, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. Originally, workplace legislation surrounding these rights was considered something of a ‘grey area’; with around 116 separate laws existing under the broad umbrella of ‘equality and diversity’. In October 2010, these were, at last, merged into one coherent act: The Equality Act 2010.

The Equality Act includes ‘Protected Characteristics’ which are differences between people which cannot be used as reasons to treat them any differently. Doing this would be against the law.

The Equality Act also includes ‘Prohibited Conduct’ which are actions that people are not allowed to do to each other based on any of the protected characteristics. This is illegal too.

Protected characteristics include age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation.

The Equality Act 2010

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