Disability awareness Safety

The Disability Awareness Training aims to help learners understand more about recruiting, retaining, working people with disabilities. All workplaces should have an equal opportunities policy that means people with disabilities are given the same chances as anyone else..

Objective:
This course explains more about the different types of disabilities you may encounter, how disabilities can impact on people’s work, how to create a more inclusive workplace and how to ensure your recruitment processes are accessible to all.

Who should attend?
Disability Awareness Training course is suitable for employers and people at management level who want to understand more about their responsibilities regarding disability in the workplace and those who are disabled, The course is written at an introductory level and no previous knowledge is required..

Course Content:
Introduction
✓ What is a disability?
✓ Types of Disabilities,
✓ How might a disability affect a person’s work?
 

Disability and the Law
✓ What is meant by discrimination?
✓ Disclosing a disability, reasonable adjustments, enquiring about disability and failing to make reasonable adjustments.
✓ Dubai Disability Strategy 2020 
 

Health and Safety
Health and safety for disabled people, risk assessments, fire safety, emergency evacuation, and personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs)
Understand how you can make your organization inclusive and accessible to all.
 

Creating an Inclusive Workplace
✓ Disability etiquette,
✓ Appropriate language,
✓ Disability communication & etiquette
✓ Employee responsibilities,
✓ The equality policy, workplace disability discrimination, and further support.
✓ Understand different approaches to disability (medical & social model) and how this can affect the service you provide
✓ Gain the confidence to interact with disabled people in all aspects of your organization