Better Work Haiti: Our services

Communication in the Workplace

Topics covered through this training are:

• Meeting your goals
• Making a Budget
• Staying within your budget
• Book Keeping Tools
• Debts
• Compering Saving Services

Fire Safety

Grievance Mechanism

Sound Human Resource Management (HRM) is essential for a productive and compliant factory. The investment of human and financial resource is crucial for a motivated and productive workforce. This training is designed to provide participants with an in depth knowledge of highly functioning HR systems.

Bipartite Training Participants on this course will have a better understanding of industrial relations and the ways in which rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining can operate in practice at the workplace. They can also be able to identify good practices that they can use to prevent and resolve workplace disputes and come to common understandings. Participants can also be able to understand appropriate channels through which to discuss and resolve issues at workplace level.

This training course draws upon commonly identified difficulties with the Labour Law and provides practical guidance and tools for factories to better apply the law. Key topics covered include contracts, working hours, and payments, together with guidance on new decrees and circulars and what they mean for garment businesses.

This course will help factories to boost the confidence and effectiveness of middle managers though practical instruction and guidance both for their own personal development and for their role as mentors and managers. Areas covered include management styles and techniques, effective communication in a managerial position, coaching skills, and managing conflict.

Maternity Protection

Through this course, participants will improve their understanding of different approaches to IR-centred negotiation and more effective management of workplace relations. Participants will gain context- specific negotiation skills that can be applied in their factory, as well as practical guidance on managing conflicts and disputes for improved industrial harmony.

Nutrition

Good Occupational Health & Safety (OSH) is good for business. This course builds awareness of OSH as an integral part of factory management. Focusing on a preventative approach to OSH including risk mapping, it guides participants to spot hazards, meet national and international standards and the understand the role of the OSH committee.

PICC Training for worker and manager representatives

Prevention of Gender-based Violence

This training provides an overview of global supply chain dynamics, sourcing modules and procurement, and highlights the impact of purchasing practices at each stage of the process.

This specially designed course aims to help participants to recognise there are different forms of sexual harassment in the workplace, understand why sexual harassment is prevalent in garment factories, its impacts on the working environment and especially the factory’s productivity. Taking the training also helps participants to develop strategies to address and prevent sexual harassment, steps to deal with cases of sexual harassment at factories.

SST has been proven to increase the productivity of lines supervised by trained female supervisors, as it reduces the time needed to reach production targets, resulting in a 22 % increase in productivity.
Major topics which we cover through this training are:

• Supervisors’ roles and responsibilities  Types of supervisor
• steps to influence
•  Positive attitude •
• Integrity
• Management styles
• Giving job instructions
• Correcting poor performance
• Resolving conflicts
• Managing workers

This training is for supervisors who have completed BFC’s supervisory skills training. Participants acquire the skills to deliver SST training in factories. This will give factories the opportunity to have their own in house trainers for current and future supervisors.

ToT for HR Managers on Worker Induction

ToT Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)

After completing this training, participants will:

• Have a broader understanding of HIV and AIDS
• Have more knowledge of protective measures
• Have more knowledge of preventive measures
• Get to know the Better Work Team

Effective workplace communication is essential in ensuring harmonious workers management relations, and a productive environment. This training provides an overview of ways in which workplace cooperation can be established in factories, including developing internal dispute resolution mechanisms to address and find a solution to grievances.