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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. If you would like more detailed help with analysing your workplace, please link to our Workplace Analysis Tool Kit on our website.

This step should be done at the start of the reporting year. The workplace profile must relate to a point in time between 1 October and 1 April.

Key questions you will need to answer are:

  • How many men and women work here?
  • What type of jobs do men and women do?

Depending upon your business situation, you may also want to consider the following questions:

  • How are men and women employed, for example, full-time, part-time, casual work, permanent, regular, ongoing, temporary, and contractors?
  • How many women are in management roles compared with men?
  • How many women are doing traditional male work (for example, apprentices, trades)?
  • What average salaries are your female employees earning compared with your male employees across all levels of your organisation?

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:
Workplace Analysis Toolkit
Compliance Guidelines
Workplace Profile Tables
 
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