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 Home : Developing a Workplace Program : Six Steps To a Workplace Program : Step 1

Step 1. Complete your Workplace Profile See the Act
The first step is to analyse your workplace and to identify the issues, as the profile needs to include factual information about the composition of your workforce. As a minimum, you will need to include information relating to the gender and job-based characteristics of your workplace.

  • Complete a Workplace Profile Table
    See Workplace Profile Tables for a Customised Workplace Profile format for your industry.

This step should be done at the start of the reporting year. Developing the profile will provide you with the first step to analyse your workplace for equal opportunity issues. The workplace profile should relate to a point in time between 1 October and 1 April.

  • Fill in the employee numbers
    Fill in the percentages of men and women in each segment.

Highlight any segments of your profile where the percentage of women shows significant difference from the percentage of women in your overall workforce and investigate the reasons.

  • Answer the following questions
    Look at the percentages of men and women in each segment.
    • What is the percentage of women in the overall workforce?
    • Is this percentage consistent at all levels?      YES   NO
    • Is this percentage consistent across full time, part time and casual staff?    YES   NO

Highlight the segments of your profile where the percentage of women shows significant difference from the percentage of women in the overall workforce.

If you answered NO to any of these questions it may indicate issues for women.

  • Research the reasons for these differences
    Data from Employee Surveys, Exit Interviews, Focus Groups, Employee Groups, numbers and types of complaints and grievances may highlight areas where there are barriers to women.

Step 1 Outcome: Have a Workplace Profile
At the end of this step you should have a picture of where the women are in your organisation and what they do.

What to include in your report? See the Act
You will need to attach your workplace profile to your report. You may choose any method you wish to collect this information. For example:

  • ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics)/ASCO (Australian Standard Classification of Occupations) System.
  • Human Resource Information System (eg HAY, SAP).
  • Award or workplace agreement or 'in-house' classification systems.
  • Your organisational chart, if this provides sufficient information to contribute to your analysis.

Workplace Profile Sample Tables are provided to assist you to report on your workplace profile.

Tools to Assist at Step 1:
Compliance Guidelines
Workplace Profile Tables

Go To:  Step 2 - Analyse Your Workplace

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