PoSH Act Decoded Sexual Harassment Prevention at Workplace

What you'll learn

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Explain the PoSH Act 2013 - its purpose, history (Vishaka to 2013), and three core mandates: Prevent, Prohibit, Redress.
Identify all five categories of sexual harassment under Section 2 - including digital, WhatsApp, and AI-generated content.
Apply the Reasonable Woman Standard to real workplace scenarios, including the grey zones most training ignores.
Know your exact legal rights - right to safe workplace (Article 21), right to file, right to confidentiality, right against retaliation.
Use SHEBox, the Government of India's official portal - when to bypass the internal IC and go directly to the government.
Recognise six behavioural red flags in your team and follow a four-step manager response protocol.
Explain the IC member's role - the inquiry process, balance of probabilities standard, and how to protect all parties.
Distinguish compliance (the floor) from safety culture (the ceiling) - and build one as a leader.
Requirements

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No prior legal knowledge required - all concepts are explained in plain language.
Applies to employees at any level - permanent, contract, intern, or trainee.
Particularly valuable for: IC members, managers, HR professionals, and founders.
An internet connection and 3 hours - ideally spread across 3-4 sessions.
Description

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This is not your annual compliance session.
This is the course you take when you want to actually understand the PoSH Act what it says, why it exists, and what it takes to build a safe workplace rather than a ticked box.
Most PoSH training in India is one hour. It covers the five categories, the IC flowchart, and a quiz. Participants leave knowing enough to pass the test but not enough to use what they know.
This course is three hours because the PoSH Act is not just a piece of legislation. It is a response to decades of silence, and understanding it properly requires going before the law, through the law, and beyond it.
What makes this course different
Opens with psychology, not law - the only Indian PoSH course that explains why harassment happens before it explains what the Act says. Includes Pew Research 2022 and NFHS-5 data that no other course covers.
The equity conversation - directly and honestly addresses the question every man in the room is thinking: 'Why is the PoSH Act only for women?' The wheelchair ramp analogy. The legal reality. The case for why it matters.
The Kartik scenario - a case study no other Indian PoSH course includes. What happens when the roles are reversed? The honest legal answer. The organisational route. The reason this scenario changes the most resistant participants.
SHe-Box - a full lecture on the Government of India's official portal for bypassing the internal IC when it is unsafe or absent. Not covered in any competitor course.
Digital and AI harassment - WhatsApp, Slack, deepfakes, voice-cloned audio. Category 5 applied to 2026 realities.
Therapeutic coaching lens - the only PoSH course in India to apply CBT, REBT, and EFT frameworks to the psychology of recovery, secondary trauma, and allyship.
What this course covers
· Section 01: The Why - before we open the Act. Social attitudes, the beliefs we carry from home to work, the equity vs equality conversation, and course resources.
· Section 02: The Law - Vishaka to 2013, the five categories, what 'unwelcome' actually means, where the workplace ends (spoiler: further than you think), the grey zones, the Reasonable Woman Standard, and eight myths debunked.
· Section 03: Patterns You Will Recognise - four real-world case studies (quid pro quo, peer harassment, digital/remote, and the Kartik reverse-gender scenario). Plus modern harassment: AI, remote work, and the three universal rules.
· Section 04: Your Rights, Your Voice - the four legal rights most employees don't know they have, the complete complaint timeline with legal deadlines, the SHe-Box process step by step, retaliation as a separate offence, the bystander's four choices, and documentation tools.
· Section 05: If You Lead People, This Section Is Yours - six behavioural red flags, the manager response protocol, why zero complaints is not a good sign (with Indian IT sector data), Section 19 statutory duties, IC composition Requirements

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, compliance vs safety culture, and the IC member's inquiry role.
· Section 06: Beyond the Certificate - the real cost to people, teams, and organisations; CBT, REBT, and EFT frameworks for recovery; allyship as a practice; 10 things you now carry with you; compliance is the floor, culture is the ceiling; and what this course ultimately asks of you.
What you'll take away
7 downloadable resources: participant worksheet, complaint letter template, manager red flag checklist, SHe-Box quick reference, documentation log template, PoSH policy audit checklist, and PoSH quick reference card - each attached to the lecture it belongs to, and all of them together on Lecture 6.
A Udemy certificate of completion upon passing the final assessment.
A course built on 15 years of corporate HR leadership at Maersk, Zamil Steel, and Resilinc - and formal certification in PoSH facilitation, NLP, CBT, REBT, and EFT.
Who this course is NOT for
If your organisation needs a 45-minute annual compliance session for all employees - this is not that course. This course is for the people who want to genuinely understand PoSH: IC members, managers, HR professionals, founders, and any employee who wants to know their rights, not just their obligations.
Enrol if you believe that safety is not a checkbox - it is a culture.
Who this course is for

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Employees who want to actually understand the PoSH Act - not just pass a compliance quiz.
IC members who were appointed with no training and need to understand the full inquiry process.
Managers and team leads responsible for the culture and safety of the people who report to them.
HR professionals and L&D leads who facilitate PoSH training and need a thorough working knowledge.
Founders and business owners who need to constitute an IC, display policy, and meet Section 19 obligations.
Anyone who has experienced workplace harassment and wants to understand their rights and the reporting process.
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