The project has reached and trained a number of first-line practitioners who can now assume a more effective role in improving working conditions in the factories. The owners and senior managers of participating enterprises have participated in a number of workshops over a two-year period, starting with basic WISE training and followed by a series of training modules specifically designed to respond to their identified training needs. The WISE methodology was adapted to local conditions to train (in Creole) 168 shop-floor supervisors (136 men and 32 women) from 18 enterprises, who were then able to use this training to bring about factory improvements. During this exercise, some 40 supervisors were identified as potential trainers who could benefit from a training-of-trainers course on improving working conditions.

A mixed group of 42 factory-based occupational nurses and their supervisors also completed a six-day training course, held over a period of two months, on improvement in working conditions, with specific emphasis on noise reduction, ergonomics, maternity protection and issues relating to sexual harassment recognition, including problem-solving and prevention. At the end of the training, the nurses developed practical tools that can now be used in their daily work to enable them to play an effective preventive role in factories in addition to their traditional reactive role in providing first-aid treatment.

Improvements in working conditions have been recorded in all 12 participating enterprises and some non-participating enterprises as well, reaching an estimated 5,400 workers, of whom 65 per cent are women.