Sexual Harassment:
Is your workplace as safe as you think?
Take our FREE Employers Sexual Harassment Risk Assessment
Creating a safer workplace culture requires more than good intentions; it starts with understanding your organisation’s current strengths, areas of risk and where there is room to improve.
The Worker Protection Act 2023 introduced a proactive duty on employers to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent sexual harassment. From 30 October 2026, the Employment Rights Act 2025 strengthens this duty, requiring employers to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent sexual harassment.
Take our FREE Employers Sexual Harassment Risk Assessment and gain valuable insights into your organisation’s readiness to prevent and respond to sexual harassment.
It takes less than ten minutes to complete - go with your first instinct, don’t overthink your answers.
What is sexual harassment?
The Equality Act 2010 defines sexual harassment as 'unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, which has the purpose or effect of either violating an individual’s dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them’.
There are many examples of behaviour that would amount to sexual harassment and case law has interpreted this widely. It can be a pattern of behaviour, or a single incident can be found to be harassment.
Examples of behaviour that would amount to sexual harassment include sexual jokes or comments, sending sexually explicit messages or displaying sexually graphic images, unwanted posts or contact on social media, spreading sexual rumours about a person, or unwelcome physical conduct.
Gain clarity on your effectiveness
Benchmark your organisation against our eight Safer Culture Pillars, the core organisational capabilities required to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment and to create and sustain a safer culture.
Many organisations believe their culture is robust because policies and procedures are in place. However, when it comes to preventing and responding to workplace sexual misconduct, true organisational maturity is reflected in what happens every day, how leaders behave, how concerns are handled, and whether employees feel safe to speak up.
Our Employers Sexual Harassment Risk Assessment is a research-backed, expert-developed rapid diagnostic designed for leaders, HR, safeguarding, compliance and senior decision-makers across all sectors.
In less than ten minutes, you'll receive a tailored report showing how your organisation performs across the critical capabilities required to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment, including across leadership, governance, systems, training, reporting, support, investigations, risk assessment and management and continuous improvement.
Identify strengths, risks and blind spots, benchmark your organisation against our eight Safer Culture Pillars, and uncover clear, actionable priorities for improvement. Use your results to inform internal reviews, leadership discussions, strategic action planning and culture change initiatives.
Built on a proven maturity model aligned with legislation and Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance, the assessment provides credible insights and meaningful benchmarking to help organisations move beyond reactive compliance and build a culture where workplace sexual misconduct is proactively risk assessed, prevented, effectively addressed and employee safety is embedded at every level.
Assess your workplace risk across LimeCulture's Eight Safer Cultures Pillars
1. Leadership Commitment, Governance & Accountability
Evaluate how leadership models, prioritises, and is accountable for safer culture across all levels of the organisation.
2. Clear Systems, Policies & Procedures
Assess the clarity, accessibility, and effectiveness of your safeguarding systems, policies, and procedures.
3. Training & Development
Explore how training and ongoing development embed safer culture knowledge, skills, and behaviours in your teams.
4. Reporting Processes
Review how accessible, trusted, and clear your processes are for reporting concerns and incidents.
5. Provision of Support
Understand how well your organisation supports those affected by safeguarding issues and creates a culture of care.
6. Investigation & Resolution Process
Examine the robustness, fairness, and transparency of your investigation and resolution processes.
7. Risk Governance
Assess how your organisation identifies, manages, and reviews risks related to safer culture on an ongoing basis.
8. Continuing Monitoring & Improvement
Evaluate your commitment to continuous monitoring, learning, and improvement of safer culture practices.
Complete the Employers Sexual Harassment Risk Assessment to get your instant tailored results and next steps for a stronger, safer organisation.