With research revealing poor understanding among many businesses of their duty to have arrangements in place to safely evacuate mobility-impaired people, it’s time for the government to educate building owners about their obligations and mandate the provision of evacuation equipment, to ensure a safe evacuation for everyone.
By Gerard Wallace, Evac+Chair International on 02 August 2023
Who Are CLADDAG (Leaseholder Disability Action Group)? In early 2020, Sarah Rennie and I didn’t know each other.
By Georgie Hulme, CLADDAG on 02 August 2023
A new service to support employee health and disability is inviting users to test it out and provide feedback.
By Belinda Liversedge on 10 January 2023
A diverse workforce offers greater creativity, innovation and productivity, making it more important than ever for employers to take positive action to recruit, retain and support disabled workers.
By Diane Lightfoot, Business Disability Forum (BDF) on 20 May 2022
For some people with disabilities, there have been some positives from the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Vivienne Reeve, Gowling WG Law firm on 24 February 2022
Disabled people can make a huge contribution to the success of a business, so it makes sense for employers to step up their efforts to recruit, retain and develop them.
By Diane Lightfoot, Business Disability Forum on 04 February 2021
Employers will be encouraged to take “early and supportive action” for employees with health conditions so that more people remain in work, under proposals put forward in a new consultation.
By Belinda Liversedge on 07 August 2019
“If you exclude a safety critical role we do not have any mandate for any profession to make decisions based on a fitness to work ‘standard’.”
By Belinda Liversedge on 28 May 2019
There are many misconceptions around disability. Often people picture the familiar image of a wheelchair user and assume that disability must be present from birth.
By Diane Lightfoot CEO at Business Disability Forum on 19 February 2019
Prakash Narola, of the British Safety Council, wants the workplace to support disabled workers to fulfill their own potential.
By Belinda Liversedge on 02 November 2018
