Useful links for disabled people

Disability

• Access to Work
  Help for disabled people.
• Job Introduction Scheme
  Help for you if you're looking for work or about to start a job and have a disability that may affect the kind of work you will do.
• Disability Employment Advisors
  Provide extra employment support for working people with a disability.
• Disability Discrimination Act code of practice on employment and occupation
  This explains in detail what disability discrimination law requires and gives many case studies.
• Equality and Human Rights Commission and employment
• RADAR
  A national network of disability organisations and disabled people run by and working for disabled people. This site provides a gateway to information about disability and employment, including the Doing work differently guide to getting and keeping a job while managing impairment.

Health and safety at work

• Workers' webpages
• Five steps to risk assessment
• Example risk assessments
• Managing sickness absence and return to work
• Human factors and the individual
  Taking account of people's capabilities and limitations in the design of work
• Workplace Health Connect
  A confidential service designed to give free, practical advice on workplace health, safety and return to work issues, to smaller businesses (with 5 to 250 workers) in England and Wales.

• IOSH Occupational Health Toolkit

Employment relations

• Acas
  Impartial advice that aims to improve organisations and working life through working with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance.

Fire safety

• Guide to means of escape for disabled people including Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans