The Employment Rights Act places increasing emphasis on employers’ duty to prevent sexual harassment and demonstrate that they have taken “all reasonable steps” to protect workers. For engineering and manufacturing businesses, this responsibility extends beyond the factory floor to include contractors, apprentices, agency workers, field-based employees, customer sites, supplier interactions, exhibitions, social events and other workplace-related activities.

This is a peer-to-peer roundtable will bringing together manufacturers from the Engineering & Manufacturing Network to discuss how businesses are interpreting and responding to the “all reasonable steps” requirement in practice.

A useful session for senior leaders, HR professionals and operational managers and an opportunity to explore the practical implications of the duty across both on-site and off-site working environments, enabling benchmarking of your approach and sharing your good practice whilst identifying practical actions to strengthen your organisation’s position and reduce risks.

Through facilitated peer discussion, attendees will examine real-world approaches to:

• Preventing harassment before issues arise
• Supporting workers across varied workplaces and customer sites
• Managing third-party and contractor-related risks
• Demonstrating reasonable and proportionate action
• Reducing exposure to employment tribunal claims
• Building a respectful and inclusive workplace culture

Participants will leave with practical insights, benchmarking opportunities and actionable ideas that can be applied within organisations of all sizes and chaired by Lauren Bathan from Jackson Hoggs outsourced HR Services.