Required employee training
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Cultivating Community at UW: Anti-Racism and DEI&B in the Workplace
Husky Prevention & Response (Title IX)
Violence Prevention and Response
Last updated: December 26, 2025
UW employees are required to complete the following trainings as part of their onboarding process. Additional training may be required by units or departments in support of job requirements and to comply with health and safety regulations. UW Medicine medical center and clinic employees receive most onboarding training elsewhere.
Cultivating Community at UW: Anti-Racism and DEI&B in the Workplace
About: This training is designed to educate the UW community on a range of topics relevant to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B).
Time: 2.5 hours
Format: Online course
Training requirement: The training is designed for staff, faculty, and other academic personnel and is required by RCW 28B.10.145 for employees hired after June 30, 2022. UW Medicine employees are exempt from this new training but are required to complete other UW Medicine–specific anti-racism and DEI&B trainings.
Husky Prevention & Response (Title IX)
About: Presented by the Civil Rights Compliance and Title IX office, this training serves as a foundational prevention and response course about sex- and gender-based violence and sexual harassment. Throughout the course, the strategies offered are meant to create and support positive UW climates and endeavor to stop sex- and gender-based violence and harassment before they happen. The course is relevant to all UW workplace and campus locations and includes tailored content based on your employee role.
Time: 90 minutes
Format: Online course
Training requirement: This training is required of all new employees by Executive Order No. 81. New employees will be able to access the course beginning their second day of employment and must complete the course within 30 days of their hire date. For more information on the course visit the Title IX employee course webpage.
Violence Prevention and Response
About: Presented by SafeCampus, this training teaches employees how to recognize concerning behaviors, respond, and prevent violence in the workplace.
Time: 90 minutes
Format: Online course. To register for Violence Prevention and Response training, visit the SafeCampus website.
Training requirement: This training is designed for staff, faculty and other academic personnel and is required by Washington Executive Order 96-05 and APS 46.8.
Reporting Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect
About: Presented by the Office of the Youth Protection Coordinator, this training serves to inform employees about their mandated reporting responsibilities. To successfully complete the training, employees must correctly answer a series of quiz questions.
Time: 21 minutes
Format: Online course
Training requirement: This training is required for all UW employees and volunteers and is intended to comply with RCW 28B.10.846.
Asbestos Awareness
About: Presented by Environmental Health and Safety, this course provides general asbestos information, including the health effects of asbestos, building materials that may contain asbestos, how to recognize damaged asbestos, what to do if you encounter damaged building materials, and whom to contact for assistance.
Time: 15 minutes
Format: Online course
Training requirement: This initial training is required for all paid University personnel under the authority of WAC 296-62-07722.
Hazing prevention
About: Presented by Community Standards and Student Conduct, this training will help all employees recognize the signs and dangers of hazing and understand the UW’s prohibition on hazing, reporting protocols, and supporting resources.
Time: 25 minutes
Format: Online course
Training requirement: All employees are required by RCW 28B.10.907 to complete the University’s Hazing Prevention Employee Course annually. This includes student employees and employees of UW Medicine who have direct ongoing contact with students in a supervisory role or position of authority over students. Student employees should take the student course, while professional employees should complete the faculty/staff course.
New hires with ongoing contact with students who are in a supervisory role or position of authority over students should complete the training as part of their onboarding process (within 30 days of their hire date) and then annually based on your unit-assigned date. Please reach out to your supervisor to learn more about the date it must be completed.
Additional Training for Hiring Managers
Implicit Bias Training
About: Organizations and individuals are becoming aware that everyone holds implicit bias, which is an outcome of us naturally creating generalizations, stereotypes, attitudes, and associations in our minds. Implicit biases negatively impact workplace practices such as hiring, recruitment, retention, and the opportunity for upward mobility. Thus, it is important we begin to understand our human complexities and create tools to help mitigate bias and its impact in our daily and professional lives. This training will heighten awareness around bias with the objectives to help us manage and disrupt our own misconceptions.
Time: Self-paced training of approximately one hour
Format: Online course
Training requirement: This training is required for all staff hiring managers with assigned roles in Workday Recruiting under HR Directive 20-02 and is encouraged for all staff.