Literacy Key to Long-term Employability

By Crown Content

Employers are warned they must ensure adequate workplace literacy levels to enable workers to meet increasingly onerous OHS obligations, such as incident reports, training records and licensing requirements.

Louise Wignall of the Australian National training Authority says that not only do more jobs require literacy skills than in the past, but more of the higher paid jobs require higher and more flexible literacy skills. Many Australians have high literacy skills but a 1996 survey showed that more than 6 million people did not have the skills to cope with the everyday demands of life and work. This issue is a focus of the upcoming Adult Learners Week.

Crown Content Occupational Health and Safety Bulletin. Vol. 12,, no 270 14 August 2003)