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Regulations
Integrated Training Ideas

• numbering conventions
• headings and sub-headings
• text layout (sections and subsections)
• Roman numerals
• specialized legal wording (where this, then that; no person shall; in accordance with; subject to; shall be deemed; etc.)
• notes to tables
• intersecting lists (table)
• font (size, italics, capitalization, bolding)
• acronyms

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Use it or Lose it

“The man whose whole life is spent performing a few simple operations…has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention…He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)

In Conclusion

• workplace essential skills are very important and cannot be overlooked
• WES can and should be taught
• workplace essential skills are transferable
• education level is not always an indicator of WES proficiency – formal training may not focus on WES
• if we don’t use it, we lose it
• addressing essential skills empowers workers and gives them the skills they need to be more than “automatons”, the skills they need to move forward, the capacity to learn
• reading, writing, numeracy, document use and computer skills are only the beginning – workers must use these skills as problem solving tools