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.