The resource is in PDF format on a CD-ROM and is designed to be used by Team Leaders who are required to disseminate OH&S information to their teams. The resource focuses on the manufacturing industry and offers ideas and suggestions for effective toolbox talks and has additional activities to assist team leaders to engender an interactive training culture. The resource aligns with BSBO1 Frontline Management.
Components of the resource can be read or printed out to hand out and utilise before, during and after the training or Toolbox talk.
The resource was developed by Louise Adam and Joanna de Jersey. The resource is now available from:
Roslynn Scheuch
National Business Commercial
Unit 2-10, O’Connell Street
Kingswood NSW 2747
Australia
Email: Roslynn.Scheuch@tafensw.edu.au
Cost: $5.00 plus postage and handling
An interactive CD-ROM supported by printed materials that can be purchased separately or are available as PDF files in the CD-ROM. These materials align with MCM04 Competitive Manufacturing Training Package.
Printed materials are:
- a learners guide
- trainers guide
- resource sheets
The resource was developed by Workplace Learning Initiatives Pty Ltd. The resource is available from:
Workplace Learning Initiatives Pty Ltd
PO Box 96
Northcote VIC 3070
Australia
Phone: (03) 9486 8600
Email: pwhouse@wli.com.au
Cost: CD only $30.00, Printed Materials only $16.00, Trainer Guide $24.00, Learner Guide $15.00 or $55.00 a set plus postage.
The Trade Maths Dictionary is a CD based resource that provides worked solutions to Trade Mathematics problems in the context of four trades – Fitter Machinist; Motor Mechanic; Boilermaker Welder and Landscape Construction. The Dictionary allows learners to search an index that links to scenarios in which mathematics challenges are presented in trade context. The learner is then presented with factors for consideration to be used to find the solution; the formula to be used; and worked examples into which a viewer may introduce the factors applicable in their own work situation to find a solution.
The Trade Maths Dictionary is available at a cost of $20 (GST inclusive) plus postage from:
Kim Dawson
Training Design Department
Wodonga TAFE
PO Box 963
Wodonga Vic 3689
Australia
Phone: (02) 6055 6328
Fax: (02) 6055 6577
Email: kdawson@wodonga.tafe.edu.au
This resource contains Skills Recognition Kits and fully customisable training materials for 24 Units of Competence for the Certificates I and II in Textile Fabrication (LMT00). The resource includes mappings of each Unit of Competence against the National Reporting System and training materials written at appropriate language levels. A Trainer’s Guide and evidence-gathering templates plus assessment tasks and recording templates for each of the units are also included.
The resource is available at a cost of $33.00 (GST inclusive). This cost includes postage and packaging. Please contact:
Karen Abberfield
TexSkill Pty Ltd
242a Sydney Road
Brunswick VIC 3056
Australia
Phone: (03) 9381 1883
Taking the Lead is a strategic project funded through the WELL Programme. Service Skills Australia conducted research and consulted with industry to identify the key elements to embedding language, literacy and numeracy skills into training and assessment practices for the services industries. Eight key recommendations form the basis of the strategy detailed in this report.
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The Textile and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) has a long history of developing successful and innovative strategies and training approaches to assist retrenched Textile Clothing and Footwear (TCF) workers. Those workers retrenched from the TCF industry generally experience great difficulty in slotting back into regular work in this or other industries. Age discrimination and language and literacy issues are most commonly cited as the manifest barriers faced by workers wishing to return to stable employment.
This project has taken a broad definition of literacy, as set out by the Australian Council of Adult Literacy (ACAL). It has also drawn on innovative, recent research into the kinds of literacies required and exhibited by workers in a work environment.
The Scene Savers: Communicating for safety at a fire scene resource package is comprised of an interactive CD-Rom and an 80 page loose-leaf Trainer’s Guide. The CD-Rom presents four interactive scenarios, each based on a different type of fire incident. Within each scenario the user is able to develop and practise several skills such as sending radio calls, finding information on a map, identifying hazards at an incident scene and controlling and monitoring hazards at an incident scene. The user can do this by completing the range of contextualised activities built into each scenario.
The resource is available through contacting: Workplace Skills Access – W69, 369 Stud Road
Watirna South, VIC 3152. Ph: 03 9210 1963. Cost: $20 for a CD and $55 for the Resource package.
A guide to assist employees with language and literacy needs to understand and improve participation in the rehabilitation and return to work process. The guide consists of a resource for employees, and an implementation guide to assist managers and rehabilitation providers explain the resource to employees. The kit can be used by itself or integrated into the 'Workplace health and safety training resource kit.' 'Let's Work Together to Get Back to Work' will be available on line through
WorkCover SA website 
. Paper based copies of the resource will also be available.
Project Outline
Stage 1 Research Data Collection
The research project was divided into three stages. The first stage was the literature review and the research component. During this stage, the literature review provided an insight into the ageing work population, changing workplace practices, literacy, delivery practices and strategies for older workers/learners. Besides the literature, industry, teachers, older learners and workers were consulted using surveys and interviews. All this data and research guided the model of delivery in the program and the setting up process in the pilot study for older workers.
Stage 2 Pilot Study
The second stage was the pilot study where older workers participated in literacy learning using ICT skills as the tool of delivery. The pilot study was set up as the research tool to observe, evaluate and reflect on teaching and learning strategies to engage older workers.
Stage 3 Teaching And Learning Resource
In the third stage, the data was collated, analysed and categorised to form the key strategies to engage older workers in learning. The strategies and model of delivery guide future learning programs for older learners/workers.
Developed in partnership by Access Education and Canberra Institute of Technology as an ANTA Adult Literacy National Project. A learner resource covering basic numeracy and application of skills to various industry contexts.
Make It Safe is an OH&S Resource Kit, designed for low LL&N users within Process Manufacturing & Allied Sectors specifically targeting people with mild intellectual disabilities working within both Open and Supported Employment. As a national resource it is directed at all Community Business Services and may be utilised for all those students in Certificate of Work Education, Certificate in Employability Skills, Transition Education and anyone involved in Vocational Orientation and Preparation Programs. The Resource Kit contains a video, a review handbook, Interactive Work Sheets, Guide for Users, and a pdf CDROM of these 3 elements and is available for purchase through Sheryl Sinclair, Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE on (03) 5723 6119.
The resource contains a comprehensive curriculum for 'Follow Define OH&S Policies and Procedures. The resource integrates language literacy and numeracy skills in conjunction with the performance criteria for the competency. Includes guidelines for teachers and other useful information relating to the hazards in the textile industry.
‘Working It Out’ is an e-learning resource for developing language, literacy and numeracy skills of operators across a range of small businesses and industries. This resource has been developed for workers employed in small businesses who are unable to be released for mainstream training and workers in geographically isolated worksites who need to develop their language and literacy skills. Resource available for purchase from: Sales Officer, Publications, AMES, GPO Box 4381QQ Melbourne 3001. Fax: (03) 9926 4690 Website orders:
http://www.ames.net.au/ . Enquiries:
suziet@ames.net.auOnline Training Resource Kit (Workplace Health & Safety)
Developed in partnership by Workplace Education Services and Adelaide Institute of TAFE.