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W W Slide 07 Slide 08 Slide 09 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 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 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. 32
Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide 15 Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide Clearinghouse • Provide a clearinghouse for Essential Skills information relevant to the Construction industry: – Make available the results of CSC in-house research; – Share best practices resulting from CSC projects and other key stakeholder group projects; – Make information, tools and resources easily accessible for use by the industry; and – Partner with groups who wish to share the results of their work with the industry. Coordination • Ideally positioned to play a coordinating role regarding Essential Skills for the Construction industry. • Facilitate the pooling of resources, thereby enabling the industry to achieve economies of scale and a more efficient use of resources. • Link organizations wishing to do work in Essential Skills to the Construction industry • Partner on projects that build on, adapt existing material, or explain why new development is necessary. Standards & Training • Incorporate Essential Skills into existing and new standards and training development projects where appropriate. Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Where Are We Now? • Translated the strategy into a funding proposal • The elements of the CSC’s strategy to be addressed first are: – Inventory of essential skills resources and tools relevant to the construction industry – National Essential Skills Coordinating Committee – Standards guide book for construction industry essential skills assessment tools – Essential skills brochure • Will begin the implementation in May 2005 How does the CSC incorporate Essential Skills into activities? Ironworker Aboriginal Campaign • Our objectives for this project are to: – Develop a national ironworker awareness campaign aimed at Aboriginal youth – Promote the ironworker trade to Aboriginal youth and encourage them to get into ironwork as soon as possible – Expand the number of skilled Aboriginal persons in ironwork to meet identified labour market needs – Share generic aspects of the campaign across Canada with other trades facing shortages W W 33
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