Get advice on creating a workplace includes all employees. This includes awareness training for your team, making adjustments, and knowing the relevant laws.

One in 5 Australians lives with disability. Having an accessible workplace makes good sense for your business and your employees. What is workplace accessibility? Accessibility means removing barriers. It is to ensure equal access for all, including those with disability. This can include looking at:

JobAccess is the Australian Government’s one-stop service for disability employment support. Learn how we help people with disability find and keep jobs and assist employers in creating inclusive workplaces.

Flexible work can improve your employee’s work-life balance.  This is important if they live with disability, injury or health condition. Flexible arrangements may benefit your business too.

Discover how data analytics leader Circana partnered with JobAccess to improve inclusive hiring practices and support disability employment. Learn how the National Disability Recruitment Coordinator helped drive real change.

Sometimes, you may need to adjust a role’s tasks. Do this to best suit an employee’s abilities, skills and needs. Making these types of changes may help improve their productivity and safety. How can I change or adjust tasks? One way to change or adjust tasks is to swap an employee’s task that they find difficult with another employee. For example, you could swap:

Talk to your employees with disability as you would any other employee. Approach conversations in a way that makes people feel comfortable, valued and a part of the team. Keep questions related to the job You can only ask questions about how an employee’s disability relates to their job. For example, you can ask:

As an employer, you must make sure that all employees have a safe working environment. You can reduce the risk of injury and improve productivity with workspaces set up to meet the needs of your employees. 

Support plans can benefit your employees with disability, as well as your business. Find out what to include in a plan and how to get started writing one – or download a handy template.