generally grant the request as long as accommodating the request would not leave the vehicle unattended or out of visual observation for a lengthy period of time, both of which could involve direct...
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2010 ADA Definition
Direct Threat: Direct threat means a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by a modification of policies, practices, or procedures, or by the provision of auxiliary aids or services, as provided in § 36.208 [2010 ADA Title III Regulations].
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24. Unattended Passengers
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5. If there is a significant risk, reasonable accommodation must be considered
harm to health or safety, an employer still must consider whether there is a reasonable accommodation that would eliminate this risk or reduce the risk so that it is below the level of a "direct...
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11. May an employer require an individual with a disability to accept a reasonable accommodation that s/he does not want?
If, however, an employee needs a reasonable accommodation to perform an essential function or to eliminate a direct threat, and refuses to accept an effective accommodation, s/he may not...
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23. Extreme Weather Assistance
request to be assisted from his or her door to a vehicle during extreme weather conditions should generally be granted so long as the driver leaving the vehicle to assist would not pose a direct...
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6.4 Post-Offer Examinations and Inquiries Permitted
To determine that a person can perform a job without posing a "direct threat" to the health or safety of self or others....
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DIRECTIONAL SIGN
[DSA-AC] A publicly displayed notice which indicates by use of words or symbols a recommended direction or route of travel....
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§382.21 May carriers limit access to transportation on the basis that a passenger has a communicable disease or other medical condition?
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Phase III: Judiciary Committee
For the administration, the committee added language clarifying: the meaning of “direct threat,” the standards by which “anticipatory discrimination” were valid, and that an employer’s view...
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22. Navigating an Incline, or Around Obstacles
These modifications would be granted subject, of course, to the proviso that such assistance would not cause a direct threat, or leave the vehicle unattended or out of visual observation...
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25. Need for Return Trip Assistance
The paratransit operator should generally provide such assistance, unless doing so would create a direct threat, or leave the vehicle unattended or out of visual observation for a lengthy...
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1. Is my employer allowed to fire me because I have a mental health condition?
An employer doesn't have to hire or keep people in jobs they can't perform, or employ people who pose a "direct threat" to safety (a significant risk of substantial harm to self or others...
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3. Q: What are the basic requirements of title III?
Specifically: Centers cannot exclude children with disabilities from their programs unless their presence would pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others or require...
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Concerns about Safety
CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY When it comes to safety concerns, an employer should be careful not to act on the basis of myths, fears, or stereotypes about hearing impairments. Instead,...
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7. Are there any other instances when an employer may ask an employee with a hearing impairment about her condition?
7. Are there any other instances when an employer may ask an employee with a hearing impairment about her condition? Yes. An employer also may ask an employee about a hearing...
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When An Employee Becomes Disabled
determine if the person can perform essential functions of the job currently held, (or held before the injury or illness), with or without reasonable accommodation, and without posing a "direct...
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Change in Direction: ADA Standard Section 405.7.4
Section 405.7.4 covers the current ADA Standards for the change in direction at ramp landings.
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11B-405.7.4 Change in direction
Ramps that change direction between runs at landings shall have a clear landing 60 inches (1525 mm) minimum by 72 inches (1829 mm) minimum in the direction of downward travel from the upper...
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Standards that exclude an entire class of individuals with disabilities
An employer is not required to hire or retain an individual who would pose a "direct threat" to health or safety (see below)....
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Armor-Tile Tactile Systems Detectable Directional System
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5. What may an employer do when it learns that an applicant has or had a hearing impairment after she has been offered a job but before she starts working?
threat (that is, a significant risk of substantial harm) to the health or safety of himself or others that cannot be eliminated or reduced through reasonable accommodation....
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Commenters were universally supportive of this provision as it makes express the discretion of a public entity to exclude a service animal that poses a direct threat....
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19. Q: If an officer wants to stay in a street job and his supervisor wants him to go on light duty because of a disability, can the supervisor force him to accept a light duty position?
If the employee can still perform the essential functions of the "street job" with or without reasonable accommodation, and without being a direct threat to health or safety, he or she cannot...
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7. Q: What about applicants with a history of illegal drug use? Do they have rights under the ADA?
safety is asserted as a justification for such a policy, then the employer must be able to show that individuals excluded because of a history of drug addiction or treatment would pose a direct...
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Risk Cannot be Speculative or Remote
(See Standards for Health and Safety: "Direct Threat" Chapter IV.)...
