Slide 6

Importance of Essential Skills

In the Construction industry Essential Skills are critical because of:

• Increasing reliance on new technology …
• Importance of safety …
• Greater emphasis on reporting …
• Need for ongoing upgrading of skills …
• Increasing use of computers …
• Need for communication on the job …
• Heavy reliance on mathematical skills …
• Need to read blueprints and other documents …
• Need to maximize the full potential labour pool including new immigrants …

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