HARRESMENT AND INAPPROPIATE BEHAVIOUR POLICY

 

KEEPING OUR GYM SAFE FOR EVERYONE

HOVE FITNESS CLUB, everyone is welcome. this is central to our community and our goal to create a safe and positive space for everyone, no matter who they are so they can enjoy benefits of fitness and wellbeing

Safety is the cornerstone of a positive experience of our gym. Everyone therefore has the right to be and feel safe. Harassment is not acceptable and will not be tolerated in any for by any person and at any time at Hove Fitness. Staff, members, and PTs are all expected to be always respectful to each other. There are no circumstances where it’s okay to intimidate or harass another person.

If any member, staff, PT or visitor to the gym feels they have been harassed they should speak to a member of the gym management team or email membership@hovefitnessandsquash.com. Every person and every case will be reviewed in detail and dealt with sensitively and confidentially. Perpetrators will be banded.

Harassment can be defined as:

• Aggressive pressure or intimidation
• Unwelcome attention based on a personal characteristic.
• Unwanted comments on a person’s looks, dress, sexuality , age or gender.
• Conduct which threatens, intimidates, alarms or puts a person at fear of their safety
• Physical violence or inferred sexual threat.
• Threatening offensive, unwelcome, abusive verbal language or behaviour

Harassment can be:

• Direct- to you as an individual from an individual or a group
• Indirect – witnessed towards someone else or a group you are not related or linked to. Harassment doesn’t have to be about you to affect you.

THANK YOU.