Through this disability awareness training – which we run publicly and in-house throughout South Africa – your managers and staff will gain an understanding of the processes and business rationale of becoming a disability confident organisation.
Suitable for all businesses and organisations
Course duration: 1 day
Course content and outcomes:
- Defining disability in the context of the workplace
- Definition of disability: Code of Good Practice: Disability
- Checking disability criteria: Examples
- The prevalence of disability: statistics and trends
- Code of Good Practice and Technical Assistance Guidelines
- Their purpose and inter-relationship with the EE Act
- An analysis of their content and role in guiding the process
- The business rationale for strategically recruiting persons with disabilities
- Attracting, recruiting and retaining people with disabilities
- Removing the barriers and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities
- Removing barriers and building in accommodation in the job profiling phase
- Removing barriers in the job advertising and interview phases
- Removing bias and prejudice in the assessment / skills testing phase
- Hiring the right person for the job
- Probation / Conditional job offer
- Sensitizing the organisation prior to placement
- Training and career advancement for persons with disabilities
- Retention of persons with disabilities through further reasonable accommodation
- Health, safety and working environment
- Building a disability-confident business and delivering change: 6 building blocks
- Building Block 1: Strategic benefits
- Building Block 2: Commercial benefits
- Building Block 3: Legal benefits
- Building Block 4: Societal benefits
- Building Block 5: Ethical benefits
- Building Block 6: Professional benefits
- Disability Etiquette
- Basic disability etiquette when interacting with any person who has a disability
- Specific disability etiquette
- People in wheelchairs or mobility devices or who have loss of limbs
- People who are blind
- People who are deaf or have a hearing loss
- People with speech disabilities
- People with other disabilities (e.g. cerebral palsey, multiple sclerosis, etc.)
- Confidentiality and disclosure of information
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