Anti-Harassment (Continued)

Introducing the WEQI: When Is Conduct a Workplace Contaminant? To clearly present the broad spectrum of workplace conduct to course participants, Albion has developed the work Environment Quality Index (WEQI) similar in principle to an air quality index, this ingenious gauge employs the following scale: Green -Healthy Work Environment Orange – Hazardous Work Environment Red – Toxic Work Environment

During the workshop, each participant receives a WEQI and learns to use it to rate situations that are constructed from the Elements of Harassment Model. The elements include:

Harassment Pollutants — Identity (dignity) characteristics as defined by your harassment policy

• Age
• Ancestry
• Citizenship Status
• Color
• Medical Condition
• Mental Disability
• National Origin
• Physical Disability
• Pregnancy
• Race
• Religion
• Sex
• Sexual Orientation
• Veteran Status

Pollutant Sources — The sights, sounds, language and other means of distributing workplace pollutants

• Cartoons, Posters, Pictures, Apparel
• Comments on Personal Appearance
• Dating/Personal Relationships
• Electronics Systems
• Jokes
• Off-Premises Conduct
• Sounds
• Nickname
• Performance Management
• Personal Space
• Stereotypes
• Threats
• Tone of Voice
• Touching
• Retaliation

Potential Pollutant Victims and Perpetrators — The workplace population affected and subject to the anti-harassment policy

• By-standers
• Cafeteria Staff
• Contractors
• Customers
• Employees
• Friends
• Managers, Supervisors
• Security
• Vendors
• Visitors

Pollution Sites - Includes areas both in and out of the immediate workplace

• Annual Outing
• Break Room
• Business Conference
• Company sponsored event
• Lunch Room
• Non-sponsored Social Event
• Parking Lot
• Work
• Your Home

Air Fresheners - People or circumstances that do not change the fact that the worksite has been polluted

• Everyone Agrees
• Everyone Laughs
• Friends
• Just Kidding
• No One Around
• No One Complains
• Teasing
• Temptation
• Your Group

An Interactive Approach Engages Participants

In the workshop’s main event, participants create a possible scenario from elements of Albion’s Harassment Model. The class is broken into groups. One member from each group reaches into five buckets, drawing blindly the following pieces for the scenario: up to two Pollutants, up to two Sources, one Potential Victim and one Potential Perpetrator, one Pollution Site and one Air Freshener. Participants construct the scenario and rate it using the WEQI. With this dramatic visualization, employees quickly learn which work situations are healthy and which are deadly toxic. And they leave the course with the WEQI and the knowledge of how to avoid or assess future workplace situations.

Training that Yields Results

Albion’s two-hour workshop guides employee participants on an interactive journey that leads them to an understanding of:

• The rules of your anti-harassment policy
• Quid pro quo harassment
• What constitutes a hostile work environment
• How to use the WEQI to determine appropriate and inappropriate conduct
• Retaliation
• How to report inappropriate conduct

• Their special roles and responsibilities
• How to proactively monitor the environment for harassing conduct
• Their special reporting obligations and duties
• How to manage performance without harassing employees
• How to respond when they witness or hear of conduct inconsistent with policy
• What to say and do if they hear of conduct that may be inconsistent with the policy
• How to manage a partnership with Human Resources

Our Environmental Protection Services: Superfund Training for Workplace Cleanup

Like chemicals or particles that pollute, inappropriate conduct can make a workplace toxic to employees’ well-being. Albion’s Superfund packages four basic training programs that are bottom-line requirements for the environment of any healthy organization: Anti-Harassment, Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance, Workplace Violence, and Discovering Diversity. Each of the programs is interactive, fun, informative and legally compliant.

Included in each module is Albion’s own tool, the Work Environment Quality Index (WEQI). During the training, employees learn to avoid situations that may cause a workplace to read "hazardous" or "toxic" on the WEQI dial.

When employees complete this quartet, they understand laws and policies governing anti-harassment and equal opportunity–and have a tool to identify and prevent damaging behaviors. They also will have learned to appreciate one another’s differences and use diversity to reach their work groups common goals.

Ask about our Superfund today and let Albion Associates help with site cleanup and improving workplace dynamics.

• Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance
• Discovering Diversity
• Workplace Violence

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