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Numeracy in the Workplace Guide: Enhancing Employee Efficiency

This guide helps you understand how literacy and numeracy skills impact workplace efficiency. Learn how to assess and improve employees' ability to make sense of numbers in various work-related contexts. Explore tasks like reading documents, filling forms, and solving problems through numeracy. Enhance your employees' skills to excel at their job.

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Numeracy in the Workplace Guide: Enhancing Employee Efficiency

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  1. NUMERACY

  2. To support your understanding of the Literacy and Numeracydemands in your workplace and how they relate to the ability and efficiency of your employees to… get the job done!

  3. Introduction: Numeracy This set of guides will support you to see what your employees are able to cope with in terms of their ability to: Read with understanding Write to communicate Listen with understanding Speak to communicate Make sense of numbers In relation to the demands in the workplace, for example: Documentation, e.g., Payslips Forms, e.g., Hazard Reporting Tasks, e.g., SOPs

  4. How to use the guides • Each guide is ‘subject’ based and gives an example of a workplace task/document. • The guides show you what your employees will currently be able to cope with, at each level of the Learning Progressions and explain why. • You can work through each level or go straight to the slide that relates to the literacy and numeracy skill levels of your employees (results from TEC Assessment Tool). • Please refer to the Skills Highway website for FAQs.

  5. Employees’ skill levels Your employees will do an initial assessment. Their levels appear in a report like this example. The results show their skills range from Step 1 (the lowest) to Step 6 (the highest).

  6. MAKE SENSE OF NUMBERS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS GUIDE The following slides detail and explain what someone can cope with, from Step 1 right through to Step 6, when it comes to: MAKE SENSE OF NUMBERS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS using common workplace documents

  7. Use an inward goods checklist. STEP 1

  8. STEP 2 Use a workplace order sheet G.S.T $

  9. Use a recipe/mixing chemicals STEP3

  10. Use information from a payslip STEP 4

  11. Make building calculations STEP 5

  12. Complete a time sheet STEP 6

  13. The Skills Highway team and the Industry Training Federation gratefully acknowledge the work of Education Unlimitedin developing this resource.

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