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POSH—Prevention of Sexual Harassment—refers to India’s legal framework for ensuring safety, equality, and dignity in the workplace. Through POSH policies and programmes, organisations comply with the legal mandate to protect their employees from sexual harassment and provide a work environment where employees feel physically, emotionally, and psychologically safe.
Complying with the requirements of the POSH Act involves:
  • Designing a POSH policy according to legal requirements.
  • Providing education and training to various organisational groups.
  • Establishing a well-functioning Internal Complaints Committee that manages:
    • POSH policies and processes
    • Investigation and redressal of complaints
    • Reporting and legal compliance

How MARG can help

We offer a variety of services to help you comply with the POSH Act, including:
Training and awareness programmes
Our programmes are designed to familiarise and educate employees, managers, and HR on their rights and responsibilities in preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
POSH advisory services
Our experts provide assistance with:
  • Creating POSH policies for organisations
  • Reviewing existing policies for compliance
  • Setting up an Internal Complaints Committee
  • Designing committee processes for managing complaints.

Each of our services is:

Customised for you

We tailor our training programmes and POSH policy development to address your challenges and meet your objectives, always keeping the audience in mind.

Backed by expertise

Every training and advisory service we offer is designed and delivered based on legal expertise and a robust understanding of the role psychology plays in preventing workplace sexual harassment.

Experiential and interactive

Roleplay, storytelling, interactive activities, and humour make for a fun and relatable learning experience. These approaches help reinforce learning, resulting in greater learning effectiveness.

Measurably effective

We conduct surveys after every session to ensure that your workforce has a thorough and lasting understanding of POSH regulations.

POSH Training

Our POSH Training Programme caters to multiple groups, with training approach and content tailored for specific audiences’ learning needs.

Employees

Our sessions for employees are designed to create awareness on the POSH Act and employee rights and responsibilities under the Act. Our expert trainers help employees understand:
  • What constitutes sexual harassment
  • How to assert, recognise, and respect physical and emotional boundaries
  • Consent: expressing consent, respecting consent not given, assumption of content
  • How to report and handle incidences of harassment

HR teams and managers

Employees in uncomfortable or difficult situations at work generally approach HR or their managers for support and guidance. So it’s essential for these roles to possess a thorough understanding of the POSH Act and how it is meant to be followed in the workplace. Through our sessions for managers and HR, we highlight the importance of creating a healthy culture and outline ways to sensitise employees, set boundaries, raise concerns, and support the POSH Committee.

Senior leaders

We offer special sessions for senior leaders and top management, including the C-suite and HR heads, to help them:
  • Learn about the POSH Act and its importance in the workplace.
  • Understand their roles and responsibilities with regard to POSH.
  • Know the POSH compliance requirements and the consequences of non-compliance.

POSH advisory services

The POSH Act legally requires organisations to create a POSH policy and set up an Internal Complaints Committee to manage sexual harassment complaints. To perform their roles effectively, Committee members must have a comprehensive understanding of:
  • The POSH Act and the legal requirements for organisations.
  • Implications for organisations in the event of non-compliance.
  • How to educate and train employees and other groups on their rights and responsibilities under the Act.
  • How to manage, investigate, and make decisions on complaints.
  • What is involved in filing annual reports.

Our approach

Complying with the requirements of the POSH Act can proving challenging, especially if you are unsure where to begin.
Our consultants walk you through the entire process, from policy development and committee formation to establishing procedures for processing complaints and preparing reports. We also offer support on specific aspects of POSH compliance, like reviewing your existing POSH policy or helping Internal Committee members navigate the complexities of their roles—either through training or coaching.

POSH resources for organisations

POSH requires employees to regulate their thinking and behavior. This can be challenging, particularly for employees who have just joined the workforce and are unfamiliar with appropriate workplace behaviour.

Posters and comic strips

MARG offers a creative way to address these challenges. Through posters and comic strips placed at strategic locations in the workplace, we reinforce POSH guidelines and help employees remain conscious of their behaviour.

Ensure a safe work environment & organisational compliance

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    * MARG reserves the right to cancel workshops or switch from in-person to virtual sessions. All workshop participants will be notified of any such changes in advance.