The WEC project has developed a comprehensive vocational education and training toolkit for learners, VET educators, and construction companies working toward gender equality in the sector. This post presents all sixteen tools across Modules 1–4, now available in interactive digital format.
Each tool has been digitised from the original print-based WEC Toolkit and rebuilt as a standalone, browser-based interactive resource. They run directly in any web browser with no installation required, work on desktop and mobile, and are designed for both self-guided use and trainer-led sessions. Where tools include personal reflection, planning, or completed records, users can save their work as a PDF directly from the browser — no personal data is collected or stored.
Module 1: Gender Equality and Workplace Culture brings together four tools that address inclusion at the organisational and individual level. Tool 1 helps construction companies run a structured self-audit across eight inclusion dimensions and identify concrete priority actions for the next 90 days. Tool 2 supports learners in recognising and distinguishing bias, discrimination, and harassment through scenario analysis, a myth-buster with flip cards, and a take-home rights summary. Tool 3 uses eight realistic on-site scenario cards to practise response and reasoning before revealing what each option tends to achieve. Tool 4 guides learners through personal goal-setting, an allyship checklist, and a signed pledge with a built-in review date.
Module 2: Career Development covers four tools focused on professional growth and workplace skills. Tool 5 maps four career routes in construction across four stages, shows how they connect, and helps learners plan a realistic next step with a personal Goals Map. Tool 6 combines a soft-skills self-assessment wheel — which visualises strengths and gaps across six leadership areas — with project-management fundamentals and an interactive Gantt planner. Tool 7 is a communication playbook covering assertiveness, the three-part message structure, script cards for common site situations, and a structured conversation planner. Tool 8 helps learners build an interactive support network map, understand the different roles of mentors, sponsors, and peers, and develop a personal resilience plan.
Module 3: Health and Safety from a Gender Perspective provides four tools that apply both standard and gender-sensitive lenses to site safety. Tool 9 walks through the five-step risk assessment cycle, adds a gender lens at each step, identifies six hot spots where construction risks fall unevenly, and includes an interactive worksheet for assessing a real task. Tool 10 covers the full hierarchy of controls, explains why PPE fit is a safety issue rather than a comfort one, and provides a head-to-toe interactive fit check for every item. Tool 11 is a dual-lens safety walk covering both physical conditions and inclusive culture, with a structured record sheet for observations, owners, and actions. Tool 12 explains what is worth reporting, why near-misses are the most valuable reports, and how to build a no-blame reporting culture — with an interactive hazard pyramid and a simple report form.
Module 4: Technical Skills and Entrepreneurship covers four tools that support learners in building future skills and, for those who choose it, starting their own work. Tool 13 maps the four areas of future skills in construction — digital, green, modern methods, and the human core — with an interactive skills map that tracks what you have, what you are building, and what you want to learn, plus a one-skill action plan. Tool 14 demystifies entrepreneurship, compares employment, subcontracting, and self-employment honestly, and provides a nine-box Business Model Canvas structured around four plain questions. Tool 15 combines financial literacy and marketing in one tool, with a smart money calculator that auto-calculates what is left after costs and set-aside, and a practical customers plan. Tool 16 is the final tool in the toolkit: it covers the legal basics of starting out, provides a one-page business plan template, and includes an interactive launch checklist with group-by-group progress tracking and a support map.
A structured self-audit that scores your organisation's inclusion of women across eight dimensions and identifies priority actions for the next 90 days.
A self-study pack that builds the skill of recognising bias, discrimination, and harassment in everyday construction-sector situations, including scenario analysis, a myth-buster, and a rights summary.
Eight realistic construction scenarios, each with three possible responses — choose your answer, then reveal what each option tends to achieve in practice.
A personal worksheet for turning learning into action: set one or two goals, select allyship commitments, and sign a pledge to do one thing differently.
An interactive career map across four construction routes and four stages, showing how paths connect and helping learners plan a realistic next step.
A dual leadership toolkit covering the soft skills to lead yourself — with an interactive self-assessment wheel — and the project-management basics to plan and run a job.
A practical playbook of communication frameworks, script cards for common site situations, and a planner for preparing one real conversation you need to have.
A starter kit for building the support network around you — mapping mentors, sponsors, and peers — alongside a resilience plan for protecting your energy and bouncing back from setbacks.
A structured worksheet that applies a gender lens to the standard five-step risk assessment cycle, helping sites spot the hazards that traditional assessments miss.
A head-to-toe PPE fit check with an interactive checklist that tracks which items fit and which need action, covering every item from helmet to harness.
A dual-lens site safety walk that checks both physical conditions and inclusive culture, with a structured record sheet for observations, owners, and follow-up actions.
A practical guide to reporting incidents, near-misses, and wellbeing concerns — with an interactive pyramid, a no-blame culture framework, and a simple report form to complete and hand in.
An interactive skills map across four future-skill areas, with a live summary of what you have, what you're building, and what you want to learn — plus a one-skill action plan.
A nine-box Business Model Canvas in linear format, structured around four plain questions — offer, customers, money, and what it takes — with guidance on the three ways of working in construction.
A combined financial literacy and marketing tool with a smart money calculator (auto-calculates what's left after costs and set-aside) and a practical plan for finding and keeping customers.
The final tool in the WEC Digital Toolkit: legal basics for starting out, a six-question one-page plan, a twelve-step launch checklist with live group and overall progress tracking, and a support map for knowing where to get help.
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