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PoSH (Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment) Act, 2013 The PoSH Act has been implemented to prevent and protect women from sexual harassment at the workplace and thereby ensure a safe working environment for women. Vishaka Judgment is a historical case that deals with the offence of Sexual Harassment of women at her workplace. This supreme court judgment defined the ambit of Sexual Harassment as including an uninvited or unwelcome sexual favour or sexual gestures from one gender towards the other gender The PoSH Act, as mandatary compliance, requires every company having more than ten employees to constitute an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) in the prescribed manner to receive and address the complaints of any sort of sexual harassment from women in a time-bound and extremely confidential manner,This paper explores the awareness on anti-sexual harassment policy and the procedures in the workplace within the selected hospital. A questionnaire was framed and circulated to the employees of that hospital in order to study their extent of awareness on the policy. The expected outcome of this paper is the improvement in already existing policy and framing of new policies and increasing the rate of awareness through different modes.