Equality & Diversity Online Course

Understand more about your professional responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010, while creating a more tolerant and diverse working environment.

Created by global EDI professionals, this comprehensive online Equality and Diversity course will teach you what each of the protected characteristics are, and how you can avoid discriminatory words and actions in the workplace. You’ll explore unlawful behaviours as described in the Equality Act 2010, and feel more confident that you are promoting fairness at work.

By the end of this 55-minute online training course, you will:

• Understand the prohibited behaviours listed under the Equality Act 2010
• Identify the protected characteristics, such as age, sex, disability and race
• Explain how to foster diversity and equality in the workplace
• Be aware of the various duties that employers, HR staff and managers have regarding equality and diversity
• Define the terms discrimination, victimisation, bullying and harassment.
• Understand how to prevent and report unacceptable behaviour
• Demonstrate how behavioural changes can promote equality between co-workers

This online course covers the following topic areas:

• An introduction to equality and diversity
• Understanding the Equality Act 2010
• Responsibilities of the employer
• How an equality policy can prevent discrimination
• The benefits of an equal and diverse workplace
• Taking positive action
• Hidden barriers, and how to remove them
• Equal pay and reasonable adjustments
• The protected characteristics – what are they, and why it’s an offence to discriminate against them
• Understanding direct and indirect discrimination
• Disability – discrimination and making reasonable adjustments
• Harassment – sexual harassment, victimisation and workplace bullying
• Reporting discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation in the workplace

At the end of this e-learning course, you will take an online exam containing 20 multiple-choice questions. The exam is marked automatically, and you’ll find out your results straight away. 

A pass mark of 80% is required. However, if you are unsuccessful, you can retake the exam as many times as needed at no additional cost.