In today's increasingly complex regulatory landscape, maintaining compliance is not just a legal necessity but a strategic imperative for every organization and company. Therefore, it is necessary to know more and develop the bits of knowledge, and this we can do with the help of online free pieces of training.
This research sets the stage for exploring compliance culture using 10 free training resources available for organizations and persons looking to enhance their compliance culture. We highlighted these pieces of training from huge of existing meninges on the Internet.
Introduction to Anti-Corruption by UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
This self-paced module provides an introduction to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, what corruption is, the consequences it can have as well as the requirements for how corruption should be addressed.
- Platform: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Focus: What corruption is and the consequences it can have
- Strengths: At first with a short test question you can understand your current level of knowledge. At the end of the Module, you will pass the tests and get certification in different languages.
- Duration: 60–90 Minutes
- Languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French
Advanced Anti-Corruption: Prevention of Corruption by UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
This self-paced module provides an understanding of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and explores how, as the only global, comprehensive, and legally binding anti-corruption instrument, it can act as a framework for the fight against corruption across the globe
- Platform: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Focus: The module covers five main areas: preventive measures, criminalisation and law enforcement, international cooperation, asset recovery, and technical assistance and information exchange.
- Strengths: First, with a short test question, you can understand your current level of knowledge. At the end of the Module, you will pass the tests and get certification in different languages.
- Duration: 60–90 Minutes
- Languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace by EdApp
- Platform: EdApp
- Focus: Businesses and Companies
- Strengths: 1. Since EdApp is an LMS, you can simply copy the course as a template and adapt it for your organisation. 2. Oriented on mobile users. 3. Gamified experience
- Duration: 25 Minutes
- Language: English
Whistle-blower Protection by UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
This module introduces how organisations can set up a whistle-blower protection program. The module guides how to develop internal policies and procedures and how to put them into practice.
- Platform: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Focus: The importance of Whistle-blowers and how we can protect them.
- Strengths: Explanations about the topic on videos that make it easier to understand. Get certification in different languages.
- Duration: 70 Minutes
- Languages: English, Spanish, French
Ethics and Code of Conduct by EdApp
- Platform: EdApp
- Focus: Creating a healthy workplace in general
- Strengths: 1. Since EdApp is an LMS, you can simply copy the course as a template and adapt it for your organisation. 2. Oriented on mobile users. 3. Gamified experience
- Duration: 19 Minutes
- Language: English
This course focuses on whistleblowing and whistleblower protection systems developed at the national level, primarily covering employees of government agencies and organizations. Still, the basic principles of whistleblowing and specific solutions used in this area will often be common to the public and private sectors. This is a self-study course and allows participants to train at their own pace. The material is presented in the form of text, diagrams, drawings, and interactive elements.
- Platform: IACA — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION ACADEMY
- Focus: focuses on whistleblowing and whistleblower protection systems developed at the national level
- Strengths: At the end of each part, participants can assess their knowledge with self-test questions. The course is open for 30 days after the enrollment. IACA Certificate will be awarded upon successful completion.
- Duration: 24 Hours
- Language: English
Bullying in the Workplace by LRN a Knowledge Service Provider
This engaging, character-based course serves as a guide for your employees to help them identify and respond to workplace bullying.
- Platform: LRN a Knowledge Service Provider
- Focus: Bullying in the Workplace
- Strengths: 1. Better Design: The animations within each course and microlearning are visually striking and deliver a compliant learning experience that is memorable to learners.
2. Higher resonance: These courses and microlearning have been purposefully designed to be more engaging for learners, increasing enthusiasm and retention. Learners will build connections with relatable characters they get to know throughout the course, immerse themselves in more realistic and true-to-life scenarios, and find the content highly relevant to today's work environment.3. More relevant messages: Most compliance trainings focus on extreme and unrealistic scenarios. LRN's courses go beyond conventional training by delving into the complexities of grey areas and less obvious scenarios.
- Duration: 1 Hour
- Language: English
Anti-money Laundering (Global AML overview) designed in Canada
Anti-money laundering courses for a wide variety of countries are available at the Banker’s Academy website. As an example, Anti Money Laundering (AML) in Canada is available for free.
These informal e-learning lessons don’t require any sort of special login, although many links don’t seem to work at the time of writing and require Flash, an outdated technology, to run. When you do view the tutorials, though, you can get a lot of useful information on the specific AML regulations in your target country.
- Platform: Banker’s Academy
- Focus: AML regulations in Canada.
- Strengths: The course is conducted with audio for better understanding. At the end of the course, there will be questions that you can evaluate your knowledge.
- Duration: 2 Hours
- Language: English
Fraud and Corruption Prevention in Public Procurement by IACA — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION ACADEMY
This course is a part of the proactive efforts of UNOPS, in cooperation with IACA, to raise awareness of fraud and corruption in public procurement. It is intended to provide a practical introduction to the risks of corruption and fraud in public procurement and how those risks can be minimized. It includes examples from around the world and emphasizes that strong anti-corruption systems bolster better procurement.
This is a self-study course, which allows participants to train at their own pace.
- Platform: IACA — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION ACADEMY
- Focus: The training focuses on the procurement process and how this process could be strengthened according to international best practices.
- Strengths: The material is presented in the form of video lessons and reading material recommendations. The course is open for 30 days after the enrollment. IACA Certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the final quiz.
- Duration: 6 Hours
- Language: English
Legal Compliance of WSH Management System designed by Udemy
This course is hosted on Udemy and will teach you how to apply workplace health and safety. This course is divided into 12 sections and takes a total of 2 hours and 20 minutes to complete. You will learn about all aspects of being a supervisor in a construction environment. There is also an offline component to complete to finish the requirements for this course; however, all online content is free.
- Platform: GREENSAFE INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD., Dioworks Group
- Focus: workplace health and safety
- Strengths: Gives more understanding of how to execute the WSH Management System, and it also teaches and enhances all expectations on doing the correct method step by step.
- Duration: 2 Hours 20 Minutes
- Language: English