3. Modern Slavery Compliance Training & Workshops
Ensure Ethical Business PracticesModern slavery compliance is more than a regulatory requirement—it is essential for maintaining corporate integrity, mitigating risk, and fostering ethical business practices.
Empower Your Business with Ethical Compliance Training
Behind every value chain decision is a human story. Our training ensures that those stories are ones of freedom, not exploitation. Modern slavery is a reality in global supply chains, and businesses must take proactive steps to ensure compliance with the Modern Slavery Act (2018) and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
The Freedom Hub’s Compliance Training and Workshops provide businesses with industry-specific tools, knowledge, and survivor-led informed insights to navigate the Modern Slavery Act 2018 obligations, strengthen supplier due diligence, and build ethical, risk-free supply chains. These workshops offer more than compliance; they provide an opportunity to lead meaningful change and foster a culture of integrity and transparency.
Why Train Your Organisation?
Avoiding human rights and modern slavery compliance gaps is not just about mitigating risk; it’s about establishing your business as a leader in ethical responsibility. Ensuring your company meets modern slavery risk reporting obligations strengthens corporate governance and reinforces your commitment to ESG and human rights principles.
Companies that prioritise ethical business practices gain a competitive advantage, positioning themselves as trusted partners for socially responsible organisations. In addition to this, comprehensive compliance training equips employees at all levels with the awareness and tools to identify and prevent modern slavery risks, fostering a culture of accountability and integrity.
Why Choose The Freedom Hub?
Our human rights and modern slavery compliance training is unlike any other in Australia, ensuring that your business moves beyond a simple tick-box approach to compliance and becomes an industry leader in ethical business practices.
We offer survivor-informed training, providing firsthand insights that deepen your team’s understanding of modern slavery’s real-world impact. Our workshops are customised to your business sector and needs, with tailored programs for employees, executives, and suppliers. They ensure strategic strategies for ethical business improvement.
Beyond legal obligations, we help businesses lead the change by embedding ethical principles that align with the UNGPs and position them as trusted partners for responsible commerce. Our interactive and actionable training ensures participants leave with clear, tangible steps toward creating a slavery-free supply chain.
Compliance with Compassion
Continuous improvement in your modern slavery response can take many forms. It’s compliance with compassion, and we look forward to supporting you on the journey. The Freedom Hub would be privileged to support your organisation as an external advisor to help your modern slavery response.
Our Unique Approach: Survivor-Informed Guidance
The Freedom Hub’s Ethical Business Services distinctively harness survivor-informed insights, a pioneering approach in ESG consulting. Unlike traditional consultancies, our service is deeply enriched by experience directly working with survivors of modern slavery.
Our Survivor Advisory Board further strengthens this unique perspective, which infuses real-world survivor experiences and voices into developing corporate and governmental policies.
Additionally, our team’s 20 years of expertise in procurement and governance ensures that our guidance is not just ethically sound but also operationally practical. Continuous improvement in your modern slavery response can take many forms. It’s compliance with compassion, and we look forward to supporting you on the journey.
Modern Slavery Compliance Training & Workshop Options
All-Hands Employee Workshops
Educate and engage your entire team on ethical business practices and compliance, ensuring they understand modern slavery risks and ethical responsibilities.
- Tailored sessions for all staff levels.
- Awareness training for corporate teams and procurement departments.
- Identifying modern slavery indicators in supply chains and business operations.
- Interactive sessions and quizzes to engage employees in ethical decision-making.
- Practical steps for fostering ethical work environments.
Procurement & Supply Chain Training
Develop ethical procurement strategies that prevent modern slavery risks in supplier networks.
- Training on forced labour, supplier audits, risk assessments, and due diligence frameworks.
- Ensuring ethical sourcing and responsible procurement practices.
- Compliance best practices to meet global modern slavery reporting obligations. (stressing global is important for corporates who have offices in APA and EU).
Training for Leadership & Boards
Equip senior leadership with strategic insights into modern slavery governance, giving them the knowledge and strategies needed to lead ethical change.
- High-level training on corporate accountability and reporting requirements.
- Understanding regulatory obligations and corporate governance.
- Strategic risk assessment frameworks for leadership teams.
- Integration of modern slavery compliance into ESG and corporate social responsibility policies.
- Risk mitigation strategies for modern slavery compliance
Employee Lunch & Learn Sessions
Short, engaging training sessions that raise awareness and encourage ethical responsibility.
- Easy-to-digest learning sessions with real survivor stories.
- Company-wide engagement in compliance discussions.
- Encourages corporate social responsibility initiatives.
You have made a daunting process manageable and given clear and honest guidance to move forward. Our team loved the engaging training workshops.
The Benefits of Modern Slavery Training
Your organisation can benefit from Human Rights and Modern Slavery Compliance Training.
- Improved brand image (people before profit).
- Attract quality employees with strong values.
- Help to eliminate GLOBAL Modern Slavery.
- Engaged staff whose work now has a purpose.
- Increased trust among stakeholders and potential customers.
- Reduce risk, improve policies and procedures.
- Be a part of the Freedom Hub’s network of over 500 trained or partnered organisations.
Who is Training for?
- Corporate compliance teams, ensuring regulatory alignment.
- Procurement professionals managing ethical supply chain operations.
- Board members and executives integrating ESG principles into corporate governance.
- Employees across all levels who need to recognise and respond to modern slavery risks.
Trusted by Businesses Across Australia
Join leading Australian businesses committed to ethical sourcing, transparency, and compliance. The Freedom Hub has trained people from companies across various industries, including manufacturing, retail, construction, finance, and supply chain, to not only comply with modern slavery regulations but to become champions of ethical change.
The Freedom Hub training on modern slavery and human rights business practices has impacted many large organisations including:
Google Sydney | Oracle Sydney | L.E.K Consulting | Lexis Nexis | Metcash | Holding Redlich Lawyers | BAT Australia | NSW Hospitality Tech Teachers | Kenvale Hospitality School | Emanuel School | St Andrews College | NBRS Architects | Vivcourt Trading | Employsure | Investible | Fishburners | Westpac | Suncorp | Palisade Investments | Macquarie University | Social Traders | Griffith University | Bond University | Sydney Airport | Pinnacle | BAT | Aristocrat | Gilbert & Tobin | Resolution Life
A workshop training session was delivered to our teams involved in property leasing, design, delivery and construction for our branch network. A separate session was delivered for our facilities management team. Overall 60 people attended the training. Based on feedback provided in the post-training surveys, the two-hour workshops were well received by our people and achieved the objective of increasing our people’s awareness of modern slavery issues in the property sector and in our supply chain. A key highlight for participants was the supply chain mapping exercise that involved working in groups to map out supply chains for a product or service within their own portfolios.
Book Your Compliance Training Today & Modern Slavery Due Diligence Training
Whether you’re looking to train employees, executives, or procurement teams, The Freedom Hub offers bespoke human rights and modern slavery compliance training solutions tailored to your business.
Join our network of over 500 trained or partnered organisations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should attend the training?
Our training sessions are suitable for employees, compliance teams, procurement professionals, board members, and executives.
How does compliance training help businesses meet modern slavery requirements?
Training ensures employees, suppliers, and leadership understand modern slavery risks, regulatory obligations, and ethical sourcing best practices, helping businesses stay compliant.
How long do the training sessions last?
Sessions range from 45-minute Lunch & Learns to high-level executive training, depending on your needs.
Our 2-hour practical training is very thorough, with practical know-how from experienced practitioners in procurement & slavery.
This not a seminar full of theory, leaving you wondering where to actually start.
EXAMPLE AGENDA:
Introduction and Overview (30 min):
- What is Modern Slavery, and how does the new Modern Slavery Act affect my business?
Practical application (1.25 hours):
- How to start mapping and researching your supply chains.
- How to begin to write your statement – we go step by step through each of the requirements.
- Learn how to write your supplier code of conduct, policies and Whistleblower response.
- Learn what HR policies you need
- Learn how to measure your progress each year.
- Learn how to remediate victims of slavery identified.
- Learn how to leverage the new market opportunities of ethical supply chains.
Can the training be customised for my industry?
Yes! We tailor all training sessions to align with your industry, business size, and compliance needs.
What makes survivor-led training different from traditional compliance workshops?
Survivor-informed training provides real-world insights into modern slavery, making compliance education more impactful and aligned with ethical leadership.
How often should companies conduct compliance training?
Best practices recommend annual compliance training with periodic refresher courses, especially for procurement and risk management teams. The global landscape and transparency is changing regularly so we keep you up to date.
Do you offer virtual training?
Yes, we regularly train teams from all over the world. We integrate due diligence best practices to help businesses ensure ethical sourcing and compliance verification.
Does the training include modern slavery due diligence strategies?
Yes, we offer both in-person and online training to accommodate teams across Australia.
Why Act Now?
The Modern Slavery Act 2018 requires companies to assess and demonstrate annual improvement in mitigating modern slavery risks.
- Ethical businesses attract investors, customers, and top talent.
- Prevent compliance risks before they impact your business reputation.
- Be a part of a global movement to end modern slavery.