Disability Awareness Training
This Disability Awareness Training Course is offered throughout South Africa
– Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth –
We now offer this programme, and all our training courses as Virtual Training / Remote Training,
to meet your unique needs arising from the COVID-19 Corona Virus epidemic.
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Disability Awareness Training
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Suitable for:
All businesses and organisations
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This Disability Awareness Training Course will enable your managers and staff to understand the intricacies and business rationale of becoming a disability confident organisation. |
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Through this Disability Awareness Training Course, delegates will learn:
- 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
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- 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
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- The business rationale for strategically recruiting persons 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
Click here to view all our In-house, Public & Virtual Training Courses.
To enrol delegates on this Disability Awareness Training Course, click on the link below:
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