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Managing a safeguarding policy and preventing abuse in the workplace
Abuse prevention needs explicit responsibilities and practices. Structure your safeguarding approach, identify high-risk situations and organise responses within your remit. Strengthen collective vigilance and the organisation's ability to handle reports.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- PSRH004FR Code
Presentation
In international contexts, cultural diversity and power imbalances expose organisations to major risks of abuse. The absence of a clear safeguarding policy engages the company's ethical and legal responsibilities and can cause lasting reputational damage.
This immersive course guides you from risk analysis (exploitation and harassment) to building a comprehensive framework. You will learn to develop safe reporting procedures adapted to multicultural contexts, protecting employees, partners and beneficiaries alike.
By the end of the course, you will leave with a personalised action plan and tools, including a risk matrix and policy template, to become your organisation's ethics focal point. The objective is to embed a genuine culture of prevention and accountability at every organisational level.
Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognise and understand forms of abuse (harassment, exploitation, discrimination and neglect) and their warning signs;
- analyse power dynamics and identify safeguarding risks specific to your organisation;
- design a comprehensive safeguarding policy covering all internal and external stakeholders;
- develop confidential, secure reporting procedures adapted to cultural diversity;
- deploy awareness-raising and training activities to promote team accountability;
- establish monitoring, audit and continuous improvement arrangements for your ethics policy.
Program
Module 1: Understanding the safeguarding framework and challenges
- Key definitions: safeguarding, abuse, exploitation, consent and power relations.
- Analysing international frameworks (UN, OECD) and sector standards.
- Identifying management's legal and ethical responsibilities internationally.
Case study
- Analyse situations involving abuse.
Module 2: Analysing risks within the business or organisation
- Mapping abuse risks.
- Identifying areas of vulnerability: local employees, subcontractors, customers and beneficiaries.
Case study
- Analyse power relations and structural imbalances relating to hierarchy, gender, culture and economics.
Module 3: Building a safeguarding policy
- Defining policy pillars: prevention, protection, reporting and response.
- Integrating safeguarding into existing HR, sustainability and compliance policies.
- Developing an ethics charter and inclusive code of conduct.
Module 4: Establishing a reporting procedure
- Implementing a secure, accessible reporting system, including channels and confidentiality.
- Structuring report handling: investigation protocols, sanctions and support for victims.
Practical exercises
- Jointly develop a safeguarding policy template incorporating employees, partners and beneficiaries.
Module 5: Deploying, training and embedding a safeguarding culture
- Communication and awareness-raising to mobilise all stakeholders.
- Supporting change in multicultural contexts and managing resistance.
- Defining policy monitoring, audit and reporting indicators.
- Establishing governance through an ethics committee and continuous improvement.
Practical exercises
- Develop a personalised action plan.
Audience
This course is intended for professionals seeking to structure an effective safeguarding policy, including:
- HR managers and international team managers implementing prevention policy daily to protect employees.
- Ethics, compliance, CSR or safeguarding focal points leading framework design and monitoring to ensure legal and ethical alignment.
- Programme managers and expatriate coordinators managing teams and beneficiaries in high-risk multicultural contexts.
- Management representatives and institutional partners with strategic safeguarding responsibility to protect the organisation.
Prerequisites
This course requires the following prerequisites:
- Professional experience: prior HR management, team management (particularly international teams) or project coordination experience is strongly desirable. It helps contextualise power relations and specific risks.
- Basic knowledge:
- General awareness of ethical issues;
- basic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) knowledge;
- understanding of compliance principles.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
- Case study
Course highlights
- Operational approach: work on real case studies from NGOs and the private sector, with simulations to test your responses immediately.
- Comprehensive toolkit: leave with ready-to-use deliverables, including policy templates, an ethics charter and a risk matrix.
- Personalised action plan: a final workshop is dedicated to developing an implementation plan adapted to your organisation.
- International framework: incorporate international references (UN, OECD) and sector standards into your arrangements.
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.
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