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It's not enough to understand the legal definition of sexual harassment… we must know what sexual harassment looks like in the real world… and its consequences on each other… and the organization. Because appropriate touching varies so much among different people, the best advice is to keep close personal touch to a minimum and always on a professional level.

While managers and supervisors are held to a higher legal standard in sexual harassment cases, sexual harassment prevention is everyone’s responsibility.

What it all comes down to is this - preventing sexual harassment is about recognizing what's going on around us and then making good decisions.

Preventing sexual harassment means making sure that we're treating employees, coworkers, customers, vendors - anyone we deal with in the workplace - with absolute dignity and respect.