DDA Interactive
Duration: 30 minutes
Aimed at

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 brought in measures to prevent discrimination against disabled people. This course is a guide to understanding disability and discrimination. DDA covers a very broad area and has a number of parts relating to specific sectors such as employment, transport, service provision and local authorities etc

Course Content

Introduction

  • What is the scope of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
  • Overview of the Act

Disability and Discrimination

  • What is Disability?
  • What is Discrimination?

Disability Discrimination Act

  • What is the scope and need of DDA?
  • How to comply with DDA

Providing Accessibility

  • What are the accessibility related issues faced by disabled people?
  • Accessibility for the hearing impaired
  • Access to premises
  • How can we provide disabled people with better accessibility?

Steps to Improve Accessibility

  • What are the essential steps to improve accessibility?
  • Training staff and advertising good practices
  • Revising the rules

Employment Accessibilities

  • How to encourage disabled people to respond to employment opportunities?
  • Application and interview process
  • Work environment
  • What are the necessary adjustments to be made for disabled people?

Personal Emergency Egress Plan

  • What is PEEP?
  • How do devise PEEP