This project examines the role that essential skills can play in occupational health and safety (OHS) training. The project adds essential skills training in numeracy and document use into existing hoisting and rigging OHS training, examines the challenges of this addition, and estimates the impacts of the essential skills training on trainees’ performance on the assessments already used after the training, as well as their performance on numeracy and document use essential skills assessments.
Published: December 2016
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Adult Training - Workplace Training - Literacy and Essential Skills