Description
All companies should have an equal opportunities policy that encourages people with disabilities to work for them. This Disability Awareness for Employers course is suitable for anyone who wishes to learn more about their responsibilities
regarding disability in the workplace.
The course explains how disabilities can affect a person’s work, how to make the recruitment process more accessible, and how to create an inclusive and accepting culture in the workplace. By the end of the course, learners should feel confident about the role they place in reducing the UK’s disability employment gap.
What you will learn
Learning outcomes
• What is a disability?
• Types of disabilities
• Past disabilities
• How might a disability affect a person’s work?
• The disability employment gap
• Discrimination
• Disclosing a disability
• Reasonable adjustments
• Enquiring about a disability
• Failing to make reasonable adjustments
• Why should you hire people with disabilities?
• Creating accessible job adverts
• Disability Confident
• Interviewing candidates with disabilities
• Inducting disabled persons
• Health and safety for disabled people
• Risk assessments
• Fire safety
• Emergency evacuation
• Personal emergency evacuation plans
• Disability etiquette
• Appropriate language
• Employee responsibilities
• The equality policy
• Workplace disability discrimination
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