Resource Category: Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills
A British Columbia Workforce Literacy and Essential Skills Plan
The British Columbia Workforce Literacy and Essential Skills Plan is designed to provide future generations of adult learners with literacy and essential skills to thrive in the workforce. It outlines eight strategies for developing a collaborative, learner-centred, workforce-oriented, evidence-based and sustainable approach to literacy and essential skills training: Increase literacy and essential skills (LES) program… Keep reading
Embedding Literacy & Essential Skills: Lessons from our research
A discussion of the Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills project, which investigated strategies for the development of sustainable, practical workplace literacy programs that could be incorporated into a work environment. The goal was to find a way to make literacy and essential skills considered a part of every workplace situation, not part of separate training… Keep reading
Literacy at Work: Information for Employers about Reading, Writing and Math Skills
Written for employers, this booklet briefly reviews how literacy affects work and what employers can do to improve employee literacy skills that will benefit both themselves and their employees. Developed as part of the Learning Disabilities and Whole Life Learning Project.
Building Resilient Workers: Health and Safety at Work. Facilitator Guide
Building Resilient Workers: Health and Safety at Work is a workforce literacy curriculum that consists of five modules that cover rights and responsibilities at work, hazards in the workplace, workplace First Aid, ergonomics, and workplace violence. It has reading, writing and oral communication activities embedded in the health and safety content. The curriculum includes a… Keep reading
Health and Safety at Work: Workbook
Building Resilient Workers: Health and Safety at Work is a workforce literacy curriculum that consists of five modules that cover rights and responsibilities at work, hazards in the workplace, workplace First Aid, ergonomics, and workplace violence. It has reading, writing and oral communication activities embedded in the health and safety content. The curriculum includes a… Keep reading