eLearning

Health and safety legislation places certain legal duties on employers and employees to ensure a good standard of health and safety in the workplace.

Legal Island’s Workplace Health & Safety eLearning course is tailored specifically to Northern Ireland law and to provide your employees with comprehensive training on health and safety practices in the workplace.

It is vital that all employees have an understanding of what bullying is and how to address it. Employers should provide workplace bullying training to all staff on commencement, together with regular refresher updates throughout their employment.

Legal Island has created a 45-minute eLearning course, specifically for all employees in Northern Ireland, to enable your organisation to help to raise awareness of bullying and harassment in the workplace and explain what to do if employees are concerned.

The way we work has changed dramatically in recent years, resulting in a greater dependence on technology to enable effective communication between both in-office and remote employees. We are seeing new advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) fast developing, creating both positive and negative issues for businesses. Combined, these changes increase the likelihood of data breaches, cyber security threats, and the possibility of confidential information being compromised.

Legal Island's GDPR Training course is tailored specifically, to provide all your employees with comprehensive GDPR training and you with an evidence trail for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), should a data breach occur.

ESG refers to the Environmental, Social, and Governance issues that impact the day to day running of an organisation. Concerns over climate change, sustainability, and inequality has led many organisations in Northern Ireland to take a more ethical and responsible approach to how they run their businesses.

The use of social media provides employees with the opportunity to stumble into a great deal of hot water by sharing and commenting on inappropriate posts and links. With the continual advent of new forms of social media, employers need to stay on top of their game to try to prevent misuse of social media by employees.

Legal Island’s Social Media in the Workplace eLearning course will help employees understand how the misuse of social media can impact them and their employers, sharing practical examples and useful tips on how to use social media responsibly.

Top employment lawyers advise it is essential to provide all staff with diversity and inclusion training on, or shortly after starting employment.

Legal Island’s Diversity & Inclusion - The Importance of Conscious Inclusion eLearning course will help your staff understand the importance of inclusive behaviour in the workplace and the value it brings to both your staff and your organisation. This course is tailored specifically to Northern Ireland law and provides comprehensive compliance training for all employees within your organisation.

HR professionals are currently facing more challenges than at any other time in history. A global health crisis, a move to hybrid and remote ways of working, and an economic downturn are just a few of the issues keeping HR professionals busy.

Legal Island has created an HR Toolkit that aims to provide comprehensive training to assist HR professionals in Northern Ireland, in supporting line managers and employees throughout the employee journey. The suite of courses will offer practical advice to assist you in updating your processes and procedures and help you understand your legal obligations.

As COVID-19 restrictions ease and workplaces open back up across Northern Ireland, it is more important than ever that your staff are equipped to deal with the feelings of anxiety that this change may bring.

Legal Island has created a 45-minute eLearning course to support your employees when returning to work, whether from furlough or returning to the workplace after working from home.

Good mental health and wellbeing practices in the workplace are essential for us all. With an estimated 70 million work days lost each year to poor mental health, good practices can provide not only a productive but a safe workplace for everyone.

Legal Island’s Employee Wellbeing eLearning Toolkit created in partnership with Business in the Community NI (BITCNI), provides comprehensive training for all Northern Ireland-based employees, ensuring staff are aware of the importance of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. The toolkit is designed to enable all-staff training for organisations, with 8 key mental health and wellbeing topic areas to choose from.

There are many benefits to working from home, including reduced travel time, more flexible working patterns, and higher levels of productivity. These benefits have brought remote working to the forefront of working life, with many employees in Northern Ireland now working from home on a permanent basis. However, home working can also present a number of health and safety risks and it's important for employees to know how to protect themselves from injury and ill health when working from home.

The purpose of this course is to provide all employees in your organisation with an overview of how to protect their physical and mental health whilst home working.

In recent years, working patterns have changed significantly in Northern Ireland with the adoption of remote or hybrid working for many employees across different roles, sectors, and organisations. The adoption of these working patterns has created a range of new challenges, and it has become evident that many managers lack the necessary training to effectively tackle these issues.

Legal Island has created an eLearning course in partnership with Think People Consulting that will provide managers of remote workers in Northern Ireland with the tools to manage and motivate their teams, optimise performance, and achieve organisational goals.

This course was designed to highlight the importance of managing a team's health and wellbeing and to equip managers with the confidence and skills to manage situations sensitively and effectively.

Legal Island’s Managing your Team’s Health and Wellbeing eLearning course is tailored specifically to Northern Ireland law and will provide your employees with comprehensive training on wellbeing practices in the workplace.

If you have staff within your organisation who work between the office and home, it is crucial that they understand their responsibilities and obligations under data protection law. This means that they are better equipped to protect your organisation against a cyber attack.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) advises it is good practice to provide all staff with data protection training on or shortly after starting employment.

Legal Island’s Protecting Data in a Hybrid World eLearning course is tailored specifically to provide all your employees with comprehensive training and you with an evidence trail for the ICO, should a data breach occur.

With more organisations now adopting remote working, what are you doing to protect your employees, customers and reputation? Compliance around data and data protection for remote workers is very important. This is why we created a 30-minute course to protect you and your organisation.

Data breaches in organisations are often accidental and the result of staff carelessness. The way we work has changed dramatically in recent years, resulting in a greater dependence on technology to enable effective communication between employees when home working.

With the value of diversity and inclusion as important as ever, it is vital that employees have an understanding of how unconscious bias can impact on their workplace and the organisation. We all have biases, many of them unconscious. Dealing with these biases starts with making the unconscious conscious.

Legal Island’s Unconscious Bias in the Workplace eLearning course provides comprehensive training for all Northern Ireland-based employees, ensuring awareness of good practice in reducing unconscious bias in the workplace.

It is important that your employees have an understanding of the importance of whistleblowing awareness in the workplace and the legislation that exists to protect both employees and employers when people speak up against wrongdoing in the workplace.

Legal Island’s Whistleblowing Awareness in the Workplace eLearning course is tailored specifically to Northern Ireland law and is designed to complement an organisations own policies.