Disability Awareness Training
Training your staff to be more aware of disability, access and inclusion will help your organisation meet its responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010. However, more than that, disability awareness is also good for customers, good for colleagues, and ultimately good for business.
Physical changes to buildings mean little if employees are not trained to understand their own and their organisation’s responsibilities, and how to utilise any special facilities or procedures that have been put in place for disabled users. A building can be fully compliant structurally but still be discriminative if attitudes and approach are not in place.
This course trains employees to understand the needs of a variety of disabled users, and equips employees to communicate with disabled users and to be confident to handle specific needs and make reasonable adjustments.
Disability awareness training is essential for all employees (and others, e.g. contractors) who are likely to have contact with disabled people, and is recommended for all employees.
Programme
- Understanding the Equality Act 2010, and how it differs from the Disability Discrimination Act.
- Outlining the various models of disability, to identify discriminatory practice and to understand reasonable adjustments in the context of the legislation.
- Demystifying the 2004 duties under the Equality Act 2010 and associated duties(if appropriate) in relation to your specific working environment.
- Understanding employers’ duties of reasonable adjustment and the need for compliance under the Equality Act.
- Exploring employee liability under the Equality Act.
- How will employees’ liability for discrimination be affected once they have been trained?
- Identifying and understanding approaches to face-to-face contact, disability etiquette and language most appropriate in workplace scenarios.
Why train with Workplace Law?
- Our course tutor offers a wealth of knowledge and experience, providing practical guidance and in-depth case studies.
- In-house courses can be customised to include specific procedures and policies.
- Over ten years’ experience of delivering solutions for the evacuation of disabled people.
- Experience of working with a broad range of clients and sectors on complex multi-million pound projects.
- Workplace Law has a delivery process that establishes an auditable trail to demonstrate that duty-holders have fulfilled their obligations. Workplace Law can provide this reassurance through the use of records, meeting minutes, progress reports and information inventories.
- Multi-disciplined professionals, which means that we can advise and assist in more than one area of fire safety.
Benefits
- This course will help you understand how to implement a non-discriminative environment which will result in improved communication, stronger team cohesion and increased productivity within your company
- This course will help you meet your legislative responsibilities in a cost effective manner.
- A full awareness of disability will allow you to protect both your staff and disabled/temporarily impaired people from further risk or injury.
- As well as training, we can also provide consultancy and provide other support services, meaning you can use one company for all your health and safety requirements – saving you time, money and confusion.
