Supporting Women to Succeed Tasmania

This ground-breaking project was based in North West Tasmania.  It aimed to support employers to recruit trade-ready women into non-traditional trades.  The employers worked to create thriving, healthy work cultures and environments by entering a 12-month cultural change program using diversity and inclusion strategies.

About the Project

The Project was made up of two facets:

Remade for Trades Program – engaged with women who were interested in trades and provided them with the tools and ongoing support to become trade ready.

Workplace Diversity Project – provided training, mentoring, resources and support for workplace supervisors to become champions of change in the workplace. As key influencers, supervisors were provided with the tools to improve inclusion, better strategies for mental health and wellbeing for teams.  With the resulting increased confidence in their skills, they have been able to challenge behaviours and biases which create poor workplace culture. Workplace leaders received guidance to encourage workers to be part of the change to create a holistically healthy and better environment for all diverse groups, particularly for women.

The Project was supported by the Tasmanian Government‘s Supporting Women to Succeed Grant Program. The Program supported organisations to undertake projects that drive cultural change to improve outcomes for women in Tasmania.

Keystone Tasmania contributed to the Workplace Diversity Project to support construction organisations to undertake cultural change and environmental transformation.

The Results

The goals of the program were delivered by the team.

• 28 women attended the try-a-trade workshops.
• 4 of these women have gained apprenticeships and been supported while the program was active as they transitioned into their new roles.
• 18 organisations, active in the North West of Tasmania, commenced Diversity and Inclusion Training.