POSH Act 2013 compliance

These six stages are sequential in setup and recurring in operation. An Internal Committee cannot be validly constituted without its external member, so stage 01 and stage 02 are usually engaged together. SHe-Box registration sits alongside the IC rather than replacing it — the portal adds a state or district reporting layer on top of the Act's own obligations, it does not substitute for them. Awareness training under s.19 is meant to run at regular intervals, not once at onboarding, and IC-member training is a separate track from employee awareness because the two audiences have different statutory roles. The annual report each year depends on the IC having been properly constituted and, where relevant, on SHe-Box records being current. Case support is the stage employers hope not to need, but it depends on the same IC — and the same firewall between advisory counsel and external members — being in place before a complaint arrives.

An employer can enter this lifecycle at any stage, but a gap upstream tends to surface downstream: an IC formed without a valid external member complicates an inquiry later, and a lapsed awareness programme is often the first thing scrutinised once a complaint is filed.