The legal standard your employer must meet under the duty to prevent harassment, in force from October 2026. It is a higher bar than the earlier “reasonable steps” standard, and generally means proactive, documented prevention: a real policy, training that is actually delivered, an accessible reporting process, and evidence that complaints get acted on, not just a policy that exists on paper.
An employer with a harassmentUnwanted behaviour related to a protected characteristic, such as your sex, race, disability, age or religion, that violates your dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile or humiliating environment... policy but no staff training and no working way to report a problem is unlikely to have taken all reasonable stepsThe legal standard your employer must meet under the duty to prevent harassment, in force from October 2026. It is a higher bar than the earlier "reasonable steps" standard, and generally means proact..., even though a policy technically exists.