Disability-related policies

Disability-related policies Given the responsibilities of the safety and health function, it is imperative that the safety and health professional possess, at a minimum, an awareness of the company s requirements regarding disability, accommodation, short-term disability, and long-term disability policies. 

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Agent Orange by the US Army in the Vietnam War. There is a statistical relationship between the development of risk for some diseases and exposure to this chemical of ex-servicemen. The US Government has a policy of making disability payments to these exposed ex-soldiers suffering from certain illnesses claimed to be Agent orange-related. Similar relationships have been shown forex-soldiers for the Vietnam Army. 

Data on health outcomes is required to develop, monitor and evaluate pharmaceutical policy. The types of health outcomes data commonly collected includes mortality and morbidity data, as well as data on health related quality of life (HRQL). Morbidity data can include both measures of actual and perceived disability. 

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) http //www.cdc.gov/niosh/ (accessed October 27, 2010). NIOSH s main purpose is to provide programs and policies that prevent woik-related iUness, injury, disability, and death. This Web page contains... 

The fire policy currently in place details all the key issues in relation to fire but has not been amended to take into account disabled persons. 

Additional controls will revolve around the production of personal emergency evacuation plans for each of the disabled persons (or a standard emergency evacuation plan which may cover all disabled persons). Controls are likely to include the use of an area within the protected staircases either end (known as a refuge area), the provision of methods for evacuation, e.g. evac chair, trained competent members of staff who may assist persons using the evac chair, the provision of information to all staff in relation to the evacuation procedures for those with disabilities, a review of the fire safety policy arrangements to include persons with disabilities. It may also be possible to consider the upgrading of the existing lift to that of an evacuation lift. 

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the Framework for Participation, which is the research tool, or methodological lens, with which these fonr case studies were constructed. The Framework helped to shape our decisions about interviews (who to interview, what to ask), observations (who to see, where, what to record), documentary/archival sources (what to collect) and statistical data (what to use). It allowed us to scrutinise the policies, practices and everyday interactions that make up the hfe of any school, and, in doing so, to explore the key themes and concerns raised in earlier chapters of this book. In particular, we wanted to examine how inclusion and achievement, and related concepts ( special educational needs , learning difficulties , disabilities , standards , attainment , progress , aptitudes , etc.) were understood and used by a range of members within a school and the consequences of those different meanings and applications. Thus we were interested in members underlying beliefs about notions such as same and different , and normal and other (Florian, 2007). 

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