Definition

POSH Training

POSH training is the mandatory awareness and compliance training required under India's Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 — commonly called the POSH Act. The Act requires every employer with 10 or more workers to conduct regular POSH awareness sessions, constitute an Internal Committee, and maintain documented evidence of training delivery for all employees, including contract and third-party workers.

The POSH Act applies to every workplace in India — factories, retail stores, offices, warehouses, hospitals, hotels, construction sites, and beyond — and covers all women employees regardless of role, contract type, or seniority. Organizations are required to:

  • Conduct POSH awareness training for every employee at least annually
  • Train Internal Committee members on complaint handling
  • Maintain documentary evidence of training (attendance, completion records, content)
  • Submit an annual report to the District Officer
  • Display the policy in a conspicuous place at the workplace, in the local language

The hardest part of POSH compliance is reaching distributed and frontline workforces — a manufacturing company with 8,000 contract workers across 30 sites, or a retail chain with 2,000 store associates across 15 cities, can't realistically pull every worker into a classroom annually. WhatsApp-based POSH delivery solves this by pushing the awareness module, in the worker's regional language, directly to the chat they already use, with a completion record auto-logged for the compliance file.

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