Accommodation and Compliance Series: Employers' Guide to Including Employees with Disabilities in Emergency Evacuation Plans By Beth Loy, Ph.D and Linda Carter Batiste, J.D....
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Employers' Guide to Including Employees with Disabilities in Emergency Evacuation Plans
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What is Reasonable Accommodation?
Reasonable accommodation is any change or adjustment to a job or work environment that permits a qualified applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the job application process...
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Introduction and Purpose
While the ADA focuses on eradicating barriers, the ADA does not relieve a disabled employee or applicant from the obligation to perform the essential functions of the job....
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Training
Instruction on procedures to ensure that seasonal employees (those employed on a temporary, short-term basis such as holiday season hires) shall take no action other than to refer service...
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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Who We Are NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans...
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4. When should an individual with a disability request a reasonable accommodation?
The ADA does not preclude an employee with a disability from requesting a reasonable accommodation because s/he did not ask for one when applying for a job or after receiving a job offer...
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Confidentiality
Confidentiality Information from all medical examinations and inquiries must be kept apart from general personnel files as a separate, confidential medical record, available only...
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Evaluating Physical and Mental Qualification Standards Under the ADA
Evaluating Physical and Mental Qualification Standards Under the ADA Employers generally have two kinds of physical or mental standards: 1. Standards that may exclude an entire...
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TTY
TTY: h. Train staff to answer TTY calls correctly. See 28 C.F.R. § 36.303.
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5. Q: What are some common problems that people with disabilities have with law enforcement?
A: Unexpected actions taken by some individuals with disabilities may be misconstrued by officers or deputies as suspicious or illegal activity or uncooperative...
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12112(d)(2)(B) Acceptable inquiry
(B) Acceptable inquiry A covered entity may make preemployment inquiries into the ability of an applicant to perform job-related functions.
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1.4.4. Operational Requirements
Because movie theaters may comply with the requirement to provide captioning at all screenings of a digital movie produced or distributed with such features through the provision...
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Work Area Circulation Paths: Exceptions
Common use circulation paths are required to be accessible except: in work areas below 1,000 sq. ft. in size in work areas fully exposed to the weather (regardless...
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§ 38.95(b)(3) Emergency operation
(3) Emergency operation. The lift shall incorporate an emergency method of deploying, lowering to ground or platform level with a lift occupant, and raising and stowing the empty...
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Work Areas [4.1.1(3)]
Access is required to, not fully within, work areas in part because the ADA (title I) treats access for employees with disabilities as an accommodation made when the need arises....
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Using a Fitness Center Does Not Have to be an Exercise in Frustration: Tips for People with Mobility and Visual Disabilities
By June Isaacson Kailes, Associate Director Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions Western University of Health Sciences jik@pacbell.net Version 1.1, November...
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11B-203.9 Employee workstations
Common use circulation paths within employee workstations shall comply with Section 11B-206.2.8. [2010 ADAS] 203.9 Employee Work Areas. ...
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8.3 Illegal Use of Drugs
The illegal use of drugs does not include drugs taken under supervision of a licensed health care professional, including experimental drugs for people with AIDS, epilepsy, or mental illness...
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403.5 Clearances
EXCEPTION: Within employee work areas, clearances on common use circulation paths shall be permitted to be decreased by work area equipment provided that the decrease is essential to the...
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11B-403.5 Clearances
Exception: Within employee work areas, clearances on common use circulation paths shall be permitted to be decreased by work area equipment provided that the decrease is essential to the...
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11B-403.5 Clearances
Exception: Within employee work areas, clearances on common use circulation paths shall be permitted to be decreased by work area equipment provided that the decrease is essential to the...
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11B-403.5 Clearances
Exception: Within employee work areas, clearances on common use circulation paths shall be permitted to be decreased by work area equipment provided that the decrease is essential to the...
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The NPRM also proposed at § 35.136(b)(3) that a service animal can be excluded where ‘‘[t]he animal poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by reasonable...
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If the patient does bring an assistant or a family member, do I talk to the patient or the companion? Should the companion remain in the room while I examine the patient and while discussing the medical problem or results?
Q If the patient does bring an assistant or a family member, do I talk to the patient or the companion? Should the companion remain in the room while I examine the patient and while...
