Making company employees aware of disabilities is important.

Indeed, even today, many preconceived ideas revolve around the issue of disability. To promote inclusion, companies must communicate on this subject and organize awareness-raising actions.

To raise awareness about disability in the workplace, the possibilities are diverse.

Why is it important to raise awareness about disability in companies?

Any employer with 20 employees or more must employ 6% of people with disabilities among the total workforce.

The obligation concerns all employees, regardless of the contract.

Each year, the employer must report the number of jobs occupied by disabled workers to prove compliance with this requirement.

Businesses are still not sufficiently addressing disability in business.

However, it is important to communicate and raise awareness about disability at work.

• This makes it possible to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities.
• It also promotes the valorization of the company's culture by promoting an open mind and an acceptance of difference.
• Finally, it helps to lower barriers and prejudices around disability.

The disability may or may not be visible. Indeed, there are people in wheelchairs, but others have disabilities that are not necessarily visible at first sight.

An additional reason to communicate in the company about this, because we all tend to forget what we do not perceive.

So, what awareness-raising actions should be put in place to raise awareness about disability? Here are a few ways to explore.

5 awareness-raising actions to implement to raise awareness about disability

Here are now some awareness-raising actions to be implemented in the company in order to raise awareness about disability and to promote team spirit, respect and tolerance.

1. Use an ambassador

An ambassador is a personally involved person who is in a position to share their experience on a given theme.

Using an ambassador with a disability can serve as an example for all employees to show, in particular, that disability is not a barrier to employment.

It is also an opportunity for company employees to hear the feelings of the person in their daily life with their disability.

2. Organize simulation workshops

A workspace that is not adapted to the person's disability can quickly become a daily obstacle course.

A workspace that is not adapted to the person's disability can quickly become a daily obstacle course.

Organizing simulation workshops in the company makes all employees aware of the importance of improving the employment conditions of people with disabilities, who make more efforts to adapt.

It is an opportunity for everyone to put themselves in the shoes of a disabled person, in order to discover the consequences of disability through simulation.

Workshops can take the form of courses in work environments reconstructed for the occasion.

3. Raise awareness and involve staff representatives

Employee representatives are at the forefront of organizing the life of a company.

They therefore have a crucial role to play in raising awareness about disability, and in particular in organizing the actions to be taken.

For these reasons, it is necessary to make them aware of disability as a priority, in order to then involve them in actions with employees.

4. Setting up a serious game

The serious game takes the form of an interactive online game.

To raise awareness about disability, it is possible to set up a Serious Game around disability.

In this case, the Serious Game presents employees with various situations that a disabled worker may face.

Business coaching to raise awareness about disability

Contacting a business coach is a solution to implement actions and raise awareness about disability.

The business coaching is a support provided by a professional coach to managers and employees of a company.

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