panel: workplace preparedness for employees with disabilities
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Panel: Workplace Preparedness for Employees with Disabilities. Kevin Curtin, Director USDA TARGET Center Patrick Cokley, Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor Moderated by Bruce McFarlane. What is Disability?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Panel: Workplace Preparedness for Employees with
DisabilitiesKevin Curtin, Director USDA TARGET
CenterPatrick Cokley, Office of Disability
Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
Moderated by Bruce McFarlane
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What is Disability?• In an emergency situation, disability
may be defined as any person that would need additional assistance in evacuating a building
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Planning Processes• Widest possible identification• Take into account all categories of
functional limitations• What are you planning for?• Think about all phases of emergency:
– Planning– Event– Recovery
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The Plan for my Agency/Office
• Developing a plan• How have people with disabilities
been involved in the process?• Have people been invited to self
identify– Are they in the room– Do we need to plan for “them?”
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Planning Process
• Include but don’t limit your planning to those who have come forward
• Conceive how different parts of plan impact people with different functional limitations:– Motor, Dexterity, Vision, Hearing, Cognitive
• Think about people who may acquire a disability during an incident
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What is the Plan?• My agency/office• The Plan for myself• The plan of the building
as a whole
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The Plan for my Agency/Office
• How do New Hires and Contractors learn the plan?
• The Emergency plan as part of the hiring and orientation process
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The Plan for Me• What do I need to be able to
evacuate the building during an emergency?
• Do I know what the plan is for everyone else?
• If an emergency happens, will I be able to receive the instructions on what to do?
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The Plan for Me• Practice on your own• Practice during drills• Alternative routes of egress
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Communications• Fire Alarm (auditory/visual)• Public Address (PA) System • Computer Emergency Notification System (CENS)• Email• Text Messaging • Paging System• Radio Network• IPTV• Electronic Information Displays• Warden Phone System• Emergency Information Website• Employee Information Line
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Evacuation Devices• Transportation Chair
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Evacuation Devices• Evacuation Chair
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Evacuation Devices• Evacuation Chair
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Evacuation Devices• Wheelchair
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Evacuation Chairs in Action
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Evacuation• Elevators
– Who can use them?– What is the process?
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Evacuation• Stairwells
– Lighting– Signage– Evacuation
Chairs
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Questions?
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Panel: Workplace Preparedness for Employees with
DisabilitiesKevin Curtin, Director USDA TARGET
CenterPatrick Cokley, Office of Disability
Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
Moderated by Bruce McFarlane