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Business Disability Forum provides a unique range of advice, support and expert tools to help organisations become disability-smart. Our Disability Standard is at the heart of what we do. It helps organisations to measure and improve their progress towards becoming disability-smart. It’s the best way of checking how disability-smart your organisation is, right across your business.
The ten business areas covered in the Disability Standard are as follows:
- Commitment
You promote your commitment to best practice on disability internally and externally.
- Know-how
You equip your employees so that they are confident interacting with disabled people, knowing what to do and how to do it.
- Adjustments
You anticipate the needs of disabled people and have a robust process for making any adjustments that might be needed by individuals.
- Recruitment
You attract and recruit disabled people, which gives you access to the widest talent pool at every level.
- Retention
You value all your employees, including those who are disabled or who become disabled, and are committed to their retention and development.
- Products and services
You value your disabled customers, clients and service users and address their needs when developing and delivering your products and services.
- Suppliers and Partners
You expect your suppliers and corporate partners to reflect and enable you to meet your commitment to disability best practice.
- Communication
When you communicate with disabled people, you are as inclusive as possible and whenever necessary you make adjustments for individuals.
- Premises
Your premises are accessible to people with disabilities and whenever necessary you make adjustments for individuals.
- Information and communication technology (ICT)
Your ICT is accessible and usable by disabled people and you also make adjustments for individuals.