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Anonymous Employee Survey Templates
Sexual Harassment & Third-Party HarassmentTwo separate anonymous employee survey templates to help employers gather feedback and identify potential harassment concerns within the workplace.
Developed by Amy Latham of EWA Employment Law & HR, these resources can support your organisation in reviewing existing arrangements, identifying potential risks and considering whether further preventative action may be needed.
What's Included?
Two separate survey documents for your organisation to adapt and use.
Anonymous Sexual Harassment Survey
A survey template for employers to issue to employees to help identify historical or current concerns relating to sexual harassment in the workplace.
SURVEY TEMPLATE DOCUMENTAnonymous Third-Party Harassment Survey
A separate survey template to help identify concerns about harassment involving third parties, such as customers, clients, contractors, suppliers and members of the public.
SURVEY TEMPLATE DOCUMENTBefore Issuing The Surveys
Both templates should be reviewed and adapted to reflect your organisation's circumstances and reporting arrangements before being issued to employees.
Employers should consider how responses will be collected, handled and reviewed, including appropriate confidentiality and data protection arrangements.
What's Changed?
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 came into force on 26 October 2024, introducing a duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees in the course of their employment.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published guidance to help employers understand this preventative duty and consider the measures appropriate to their organisation. These may include:
- Appropriate anti-harassment and sexual harassment training, with refresher training at suitable intervals.
- Assessing workplace risks relating to sexual harassment.
- Implementing and reviewing an appropriate anti-harassment policy.
- Using anonymous employee surveys to help identify risks and historical or current harassment concerns.
Strengthened Prevention Duties
The legal duty will be strengthened to require employers to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment. New provisions will also strengthen employers' legal duties regarding third-party harassment where they have failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent it.
Failure to comply with relevant legal obligations may result in enforcement action by the EHRC. In relevant successful employment tribunal claims, compensation may also be increased by up to 25% where an employer has failed to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment.
Important Information
The EHRC's guidance is not an exhaustive checklist of everything every employer must do. The appropriate measures will depend on each organisation's circumstances, including its size, sector, working environment, workforce and identified risks.
These survey templates are intended to support employers in gathering feedback and identifying potential concerns. They do not replace the need to assess workplace risks, implement appropriate preventative measures and review their effectiveness.
Employers remain responsible for deciding how the surveys should be used, reviewing the findings appropriately and determining what further action may be necessary.
Terms And Conditions
These templates are supplied for use by the purchasing organisation. They should be adapted to reflect the organisation's circumstances and handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
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