Updated June 2020
Most organizations periodically train their personnel to recognize, avoid and report workplace discrimination, including harassment. To ensure that CSG-qualified public media stations consistently follow this practice, CPB is requiring annual harassment prevention training for all officers (examples: President and CEO, Vice President, COO, CFO and General Manager), employees (full-time and part-time who are paid a salary or hourly wage), and interns (paid and unpaid) as a condition of the Grantee’s eligibility for a radio or television Community Service Grant (CSG). Stations can use a harassment prevention training program of their choice or they can use the NAVEX Global program which is currently offered at no charge to stations.
Because CPB’s primary objective is creating a safe environment at your station, CPB will also provide NAVEX licenses for stations that wish to train personnel who are not officers, employees, or interns. This may include volunteers, contractors, board members and others that the station selects because of the frequency of their presence in the workplace. Grantees may satisfy the Harassment Prevention Requirement through either of the following training options:
- A harassment prevention training program of your choice. If you use a harassment prevention training program of your choice, you must keep records of all personnel who were trained each year as proof of compliance. Your program will satisfy the requirement if it instructs your personnel, either in person or online, on the three topics listed below:
- What constitutes acceptable and unacceptable workplace behavior;
- How to recognize harassment when it occurs; and
- How to report and respond to violations.
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- An interactive online harassment prevention training service from NAVEX, provided at no cost to stations by CPB, that instructs your personnel individually on the topics listed in option A.
If your station has not previously used NAVEX but wishes to do so this year, register your personnel for NAVEX licenses using this online form. When we receive the completed form, CPB will send your station administrator an email with login credentials and instructions for registering station personnel in NAVEX. Please allow three to four business days to process your request. After your personnel completes their training, NAVEX will provide a record of those who were trained through its reporting feature.
For stations that have previously used NAVEX, you should request licenses for new personnel only using this online form. After completing the form, station administrators can immediately begin creating accounts for the number of licenses that were requested. There is no need to wait for confirmation from CPB to create accounts after submitting the license request.
Head of Grantees and Licensee Officials must certify their station’s compliance with this requirement in the FY 2021 CSG Agreement and Certification of Eligibility which is scheduled to be released in CPB’s Integrated Station Information System in early November 2020.
Because of disruptions caused by COVID-19, CPB is making the following accommodation: The deadline to complete the required training is December 31, 2020, a three-month extension. When submitting the FY 2021 CSG Agreement and Certification of Eligibility to CPB, the grantee will certify that it completed the annual Harassment Prevention Training Requirement at the time of submission or, because of disruptions caused by COVID-19, the grantee will complete the training by December 31, 2020.
We know you share our commitment to maintaining a work environment that is free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. CPB appreciates your cooperation with this requirement. For additional information, please see the FAQs below. If you still have questions, please contact us.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What constitutes acceptable and unacceptable workplace behavior;
- How to recognize harassment when it occurs; and
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How to report and respond to violations.
Click launch reports on the left-hand side of the screen. The “launch reports” icon is the last icon on the panel that resembles papers. Then scroll down and click enrollment report.
You will then need to fill out the following parameters in order to create a report.
- Enrollment start/end date
- Select course “2020 Workplace Harassment 8 General Edition”
- Select class status (completed/ in progress/ not started). You can also do all 3 or a combination of the 3
- Select group name (You should only see your group(s) listed)
- Select active/inactive
Click apply to run the report. Once you have run the report, export it into a PDF or an excel spreadsheet in order to access the full report.
Bulk enrollment is used to enroll learners in courses. Once the process is finished, any associated notifications will be sent to the enrolled learners. Take the following steps to enroll multiple or single users into a course:
a. From the Main Menu, select ‘Resource Management’, then select ‘Bulk Enrollments’
b. From the Bulk Enrollment screen, select ‘Select Classes’. Put a check next to “2020 Workplace Harassment 8 General Edition” and select ‘Submit’. Please take care to NOT select the course for CPB employees titled “Workplace Harassment V8 CPB Employee 2020”. Make sure the course you are selecting shows ‘Yes’ under the ‘Active’ column. Old courses may appear here as well.
c. The selected classes should now appear under the ‘Classes’ section of the Bulk Enrollment screen. Next, select ‘Select Users’. This is the screen where you will select the learners for enrollment into the course(s) you have selected. Select the users that you wish to enroll in courses by checking the box next to their name. By using the ‘Advanced’ button you can conduct a narrower search, such as by name, login name, or any custom field. To select all users on the page, click the checkbox above the in-line checkboxes next to the learner name. Note that checking this ‘check all’ box will only check the learners on the current page. If you have more than one page of learners you will need to go to each page and repeat the enrollment process. When finished, select ‘Submit’
d. The users now appear under the ‘Users’ section of the Bulk Enrollment page. To select additional learners, select the ‘Select Users’ button again and any new users you check will be added to the list. To start over, select the ‘Reset’ button. Next, select the ‘Bulk Enroll Users to Classes’ button. You will get an alert at the top of the screen when the enrollment process is completed. (This may take up to 10 minutes depending on the number of learners). If the system tells you that some or all of the learners could not be enrolled, click the ‘here’ text in that message to see the list of learners that failed to enroll and the reason why. Typically enrollment failures are the result of the learner already having been enrolled in that course or there are not enough licenses to enroll that learner in the course.
