Disability Support Measures Disabilities Are Term Paper

It should also be kept in mind that the employee will need regular and easy access to the bathrooms for the insulin shots that she needs. Disability bathroom facilities should be installed for this purpose. These facilities should be fairly close to the employee's workstation. Furthermore, the facility should be easily accessible for a person using a wheelchair or crutches.

In terms of emotional support, an on-site consultant can be hired to help the employee with her transition from convalescence to work, and with the emotional aspects of returning to work in a disabled state. This consultant can also be used for training fellow employees towards sensitivity for the needs of the returned worker.

The telephone switchboard operator who lost the use of his right hand and arm following a stroke can be treated in the same general manner as the checkout operator. A consultation with the employer can for example ensure that the employee is indeed ready to return to work. In this case, the workplace equipment should also be adjusted.As the operator's dominant right side is now out of commission, workplace equipment such as the telephone and computer mouse should be located at his left-hand side.

An on-site consultant can in this case also help the worker adjust to integrate with the rest of the workforce and to adjust to the new situation in terms of using his left hand and typing messages. Until the employee has established that he is ready to reassume his full set of duties, an assistant should also be appointed to help with switchboard and messaging duties.

In both the above cases it is important to ensure that the employees are assured of confidence in their competence to reenter their duties at the same eventual level as before. With the necessary adjustments and personal support, they can circumnavigate their disabilities in order to assume their full load of duties as before......