In the spirit of USC’s Code of Ethics, the Board of Trustee mandate and California State law, each employee is responsible for completing the required harassment prevention courses and remaining current on related USC policies and procedures.

2008 Training Procedures for New Employees

All new employees must complete Harasment Training within 60 days following the date of hire.  Within your first 3 weeks of work, you will receive an email from our vendor, Workplace Answers, to the email addresss that is on file with the payroll system.  This email will contain a personalized link for you to complete the training.  If you do not receive an email within the first three weeks of employment, please contact Profesional Development at 213-740-5885 or send an email to harassmentprevention@caps.usc.edu to have your link resent and we will handle your request as soon as possible.

Training in 2008 is not required by any employees who completed training in 2007.  If you did not complete the training in 2007, you must complete it as soon as possible.

Tips to Complete the Training:

• Training does not need to be completed in one sitting
• You must take at least 2 hours to complete the training
• If you finish early you must actively review previous slides until you reach the two hour mark.
• In the bottom right hand corner of the training, there is a meter that indicates your pace of completing the training based on the two-hour metric

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE PROGRAM

ONLINE COURSE INFORMATION

FIND YOUR HARASSMENT PREVENTION COORDINATOR (also known as an IAP – Internal Accountability Person)

LINK TO IAP PORTAL (Password required)

Our next training year will be in 2009.  At that point all full time and part time employees (staff and faculty) are expected to complete the 2009 course:

• Even if you completed any/all courses in 2005, 2006 and 2007
• Even if you did not have to complete a course in 2005, 2006 and 2007
• Even if you completed a similar course at a previous employer

Who Must Participate?

• All part-time and full-time faculty and staff
• Union employees
• Research associates (which includes)
  • Post Doctoral Fellow Teaching Associates
  • Research Associates
  • Research Associates, Senior
  • Postdoctoral Research Associates
• Volunteer faculty
• Student workers who are supervisors

Excluded at This Time:

• Research assistants
• Student workers
• Sub-contractors
• Temporary Workers

If you are still uncertain about whether you are required to complete the course please contact USC Professional Development at HarassmentPrevention@caps.usc.edu

Thank you for your contribution to an environment that respects the rights and dignity of all persons.