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This report is part of a broader national project whereby the six ALNARC (Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium) centres have designed an integrated research processes to highlight the current and possible difficulties and propose solutions to ensure that language, literacy and numeracy (LL&N) skills development and assessment are attended to as training packages are implemented and delivered within Australian workplaces. This report comes from the Queensland centre and was conducted in two phases: Phase 1 involved a general survey of the adoption of training packages in Queensland and provided background data to assist in the development of a broader national picture. Phase 2 was a case study of sites within the civil construction industry, particuarly two sites of the Pacific Motorway project in its final stages. (This project involved five companies, each of which conducted it's own training on site.) The project found that there were tensions between the companies' commitment to training and the overarching objective of getting the motorway completed, there were also discrepancies between the ways in which the workers believed they learned best (through observtion of 'experts') and the formal training environment. The project reccomended that there be more reserach into the ways in which different learning environments contribute to the overall learning and work requirements of the construction industry.