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Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide
Issues
– Lack of awareness
– Fear factor
– Funding support
needed
– Responsibility and
accountability
Safety
What We Did
• The CSC hosted a construction
industry workshop on Essential Skills
• Opportunity to:
– Identify industry priorities;
– Raise awareness of the issue of essential
skills and best practices in the Construction
industry; and
– Develop an essential skills strategy for the
Construction industry.
What Did We Learn?
Actions
– Get the message out
– Address psychological and
other barriers to learning
– Pool resources
– Make funding more readily
accessible
– Recognize existing “bestpractices”
for assessing
essential skills and put
them to use
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Five-Point Strategy
Standards
&
Training
Coordination
Research
CSC
Clearing
House
Research
Awareness
• Undertake new research initiatives
necessary to support the needs of the
Construction industry and the CSC’s
work in Essential Skills
• Essential skill elements incorporated
into other research
Awareness
• Engage the industry on the topic of
Essential Skills.
• Initiate and be open to partnership opportunities
that will:
– Raise awareness among employers and the
workforce on the importance of essential skills;
– Raise the industry’s awareness of resources and
tools available and how to access and use these
materials;
– Educate the general public about the importance
of essential skills in construction work; and
– Incorporate essential skills into career
awareness information.
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