Dofasco Inc.’s Trade Assist Program: Multiskilling in the Modern Workplace

Dofasco created the Trade Assist Program to help employees learn the skills they need to maintain ever more technically sophisticated equipment.

Document Highlights

In setting up this program, Dofasco acknowledged the importance of:

1. upgrading employees’ technical skills to ensure Dofasco’s continued success in a highly competitive global economy, and
2. investing in the employability skills of employees, who must constantly adapt in a rapidly changing workplace.

This case study looks at the:

• objectives;
• activities;
• resources required;
• achievements;
• benefits;
• keys to success; and
• greatest challenge.