Employers can access free resources and training to grow your workforce, upskill and improve workplace safety for all employees, including women in trades.
Growing your workforce
- Communications Guide – Evidence-based advice to help you communicate with girls and women about non-traditional trades.
- Life Phases: Women in Trades - Behavioural interventions to help women start and stay in non-traditional trades.
- Women in Trades Promising Practice Review - Understanding the barriers preventing women engaging in trades and recommended interventions.
- Employer’s toolkit - Practical steps for attracting, recruiting, and retaining women in trades.
- Steps to employ an apprentice or trainee
Supporting school students
- Regional Industry Education Partnerships (RIEP) - connecting employers with schools
- School-based apprenticeships and traineeships for employers
Building an inclusive and safe workplace
Enhancing your workplace practices and flexibility can assist all employees, including uplifting the participation and retention of apprentices and trainees, as well as women within your organisation.
Creating a safe and supportive workplace will help you retain them for the long term.
There are 2 things you can do as an employer to retain tradeswomen:
- Have processes in place to overcome gender bias.
- Create a supportive workplace culture.
This should include:
- supporting flexible working
- providing women with appropriate equipment and facilities on worksites
- planning, promoting and enforcing gender inclusive workplace policies
- seeking regular feedback from women employees
- providing tradeswomen in your business mentorship and networking opportunities
- ensuring equal opportunities for women to further their career.
Access the employer’s toolkit that provides practical steps and case studies on retaining women in trades.
Free training for supervisors
Supervisors across industry and the NSW public sector are invited to access free training sessions to upskill to support women in trades. All supervisors are eligible.
About the training
The training aims to equip supervisors leading diverse teams with the skills to confidently:
- apply inclusive supervision practices
- build psychologically safe environments
- adapt communication styles
- develop workplace mentoring, coaching and actions plan
- support and retain women in their team.
Training delivery
Delivered by a Registered Training Organisation.
Duration: 4 days
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Cost: fully funded.
Venue: flexible training options are available, choose between online or blended learning.
(Department of Education Office or external training room).
Training benefits
Taking part benefits your organisation by:
- strengthening a positive, inclusive workplaces that supports women in trades
- addressing common barriers faced by women in trades
- supporting the progression and retention of women in trades.
Supervisors will receive 2 statements of attainment:
- Lead and facilitate a team
- Mentor in the workplace.
Upcoming sessions
Places within each training session are limited.
24 – 25 September, 15 – 1 October (Online)
20 – 21 October, 17 – 18 November (Parramatta)
3 - 4 November, 30 November – 1 December (Parramatta)
Submit an enquiry to register your interest
To discuss and register your interest, email: WITsupport@det.nsw.edu.au
Please include:
- Your preferred session date/location.
- Your contact details, or a supervisor within your organisation, interested in attending.
Supervisor training flyer
- Download the supervisor training flyer and share within your networks.
Additional support available for apprentices and trainees
- Women in trades
- Support for women apprentices and trainees
- Get funding or support for apprenticeships or traineeships - Employers
- For employers apprenticeships and traineeships
Contact information
- Email: WITsupport@det.nsw.edu.au
- Call your local Training Services office on 13 28 11