5.7 Create an accessible and
inclusive workplace
through all-staff training on diversity,
Recruitment should form only one aspect of
made to work processes, practices or
inclusion disability and accessibility
ensure that reasonable adjustments are
an employer’s approach with respect to
environments, to ensure employees with
employing persons with disability. An
disability can perform their job, free from
employer should implement measures to
barriers
create an accessible and inclusive
workplace, not only to facilitate successful
recruitment outcomes, but to actively foster
the retention and advancement of talented
employees with disability. For example,
employers should:
• create accessible and inclusive induction
programs, to establish a long-lasting
relationship built on mutual respect
• ensure the physical accessibility of their
workplace, including its overall
accessibility, internal accessibility,
signage and waiting and reception areas
• ensure equitable access to workplace
technology
• foster workplace attitudes that support
people with disability to feel welcome,
safe and included at work, including
• consider having a Disability Employee
Network and a diversity inclusion officer
role
• consider implementing a Disability Action
Plan.
For more information about measures that
can be implemented to create inclusive and
accessible workplaces, including for people
with disability, please refer to:
• the Commission’s IncludeAbility Creating
an Accessible and Inclusive Workplace
Guide
• the Commission’s IncludeAbility Creating
an Accessible and Inclusive Induction
Guide
• the Commission’s Disability Action Plan
Guide.
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