Disability Awareness Training

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