Module GLP-39 · Version 1.0
Harassment, Discrimination, and Professional Workplace Conduct
Recognize workplace-conduct concerns, preserve objective facts, and use appropriate safety, reporting, accommodation, and nonretaliation pathways in the laboratory.
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Who this module is for
Medical laboratory professionals, trainees, lead technologists, and supervisors working in U.S. laboratory settings.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish unprofessional conduct, a potential protected-status concern, retaliation concern, and an active safety threat from observed facts.
- Document a workplace concern with dates, specific words or actions, witnesses, work impact, and reports made without reaching a legal conclusion.
- Choose an appropriate reporting, escalation, or accommodation pathway and state the limits of a supervisor's role.
How completion works
Mark every required section done and answer every knowledge check in those sections correctly. The final save completes the module automatically.
Sources
15 sources
1. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Small Business Fact Sheet: Harassment in the Workplace.
Source note · federal guidance
2. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Questions and Answers for Employees: Harassment at Work.
Source note · federal guidance
3. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, What You Should Know: What to Do if you Believe you have been Harassed at Work.
Source note · federal guidance
4. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues, EEOC Notice 915.004.
Source note · federal guidance
5. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Policy Guidance on Current Issues of Sexual Harassment.
Source note · federal guidance
6. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC Commission Votes to Rescind 2024 Harassment Guidance, 2026-01-23.
Source note · federal guidance
7. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Religious Discrimination.
Source note · federal guidance
8. Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. 447 (2023).
Source note · federal regulation
9. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Summary of Key Provisions of EEOC's Final Rule to Implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
Source note · federal regulation
10. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Small Employers and Reasonable Accommodation; Disability Discrimination and Reasonable Accommodation.
Source note · federal guidance
11. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Imminent Danger.
Source note · federal guidance
12. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Workplace Violence - Enforcement.
Source note · federal guidance
13. American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification, Credential Holder Code of Conduct.
Source note · professional society guidance
14. American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, Code of Ethics.
Source note · professional society guidance
15. Local institutional HR or compliance policy, accessed through the organization's policy system.
Source note · laboratory reference