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People with Disabilities Toolkit: Enhancing Workplace Inclusion

Discover the comprehensive People with Disabilities Toolkit designed to assist chemical sector companies in meeting legislative imperatives, handling disability in the workplace, and increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

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People with Disabilities Toolkit: Enhancing Workplace Inclusion

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  1. REGIONAL SKILLS FORUM MAY 2018 RESEARCH AND SKILLS PLANNING UNIT UPDATES

  2. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability PRESENTATION OUTLINE Sector Skills Plan (SSP) Updates: Project Plan Skills Supply and Demand Database Toolkit for People Living with Disabilities Research Funding Windows Sharing best practice: Competency Profiling Qualifications Development Updates

  3. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Sector Skills Plan

  4. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Skills Supply and Demand Database

  5. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Skills Supply and Demand Database… Challenges Solutions www.ssdd.org.za

  6. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability People with Disabilities Toolkit

  7. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Content: Key Points The CHIETA “People With Disabilities Toolkit” (PWD Toolkit), consists of seven (7) chapters Chapter 1 outlines the purpose of the PWD Toolkit, the disability landscape ( national and chemical sector ), using the PWD Toolkit as well as facts and examples. Chapter 2 outlines the self-assessment tool, which employers can use to measure compliance of their facilities against set criteria as well as the benefits of the PWD Toolkit Facilities Assessment Tool. Chapter 3 focuses on the definition of a person with disabilities and provides criteria utilised to classify a person with disabilities. Chapter 4 outlines the recruitment process for people with disabilities, focusing on recruitment and selection as well as tips for job seekers with disabilities. Chapter 5 outlines then working environment for people with disabilities, focusing on placement, the work environment, new aspects to reasonable accommodation and universal design. Chapter 6 outlines the retention practices, focusing on injury in the workplace. Chapter 7 outlines the financial and grant benefits for people with disabilities, focusing on government grants, tax incentives and CHIETA incentives.

  8. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Purpose of the People with Disabilities Toolkit To assist chemical sector companies, achieve but not limited to: - Meeting legislative imperatives - Develop a working definition of disability for the chemical sector - Assist companies with handling disability in the workplace - Understanding reasonable accommodation, issues of sensitivity, discrimination - Increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities IMPORTANT NOTES: This PWD Toolkit is aimed at providing the user with a tool to better understand the working environment and conditions related to people with disabilities in the workplace and should not be used as a Labour Relations Tool. Notes, examples, tools and guidelines are provided as a reference only and not as a regulatory stance by the CHIETA.

  9. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Chemical Sector Disability Landscape According to the 2017 WSP submissions, there were approximately 1 437 employees with disabilities working in the Chemical Sector out of 169 181 of total workforce in the sector. This equates to 0.8% of total employment in the sector Stakeholders, through the CHIETA Chambers, noted the difficulty of employing people with disabilities in certain occupations due to health and safety requirements, particularly difficult in key production occupations. However, there was an acknowledgement that more effort needs to be made to identify those occupations in which people with disabilities can be employed in and to recruit people with disabilities for these occupations

  10. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Benefits of Employing People Living with Disabilities Skills Development Scorecard (derived from the BBBEE codes) Skills Development Expenditure on Learning Programmes specified in the Learning Programme Matrix for black employees with disabilities as a percentage of Leviable Amount. (Weight Points 4 and compliance target 0.3%) CHIETA Incentives The typical DG funding windows identified during the NSDS III period in support of PWDs are: AET Provision Incentive Apprenticeships Grant FET College Lecturer Development Learnerships Grant - Artisan Related Learnerships Grant - Non-Artisan Related RPL - Artisan Related Skills Programmes Work Integrated Learning

  11. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Windows

  12. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Window

  13. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Window

  14. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Window

  15. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Proposed Research Topics for 2018/2019

  16. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Competency Profiling

  17. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Sharing Best Practice - Competency Profiling (Human Capital Development Project CHIETA has supported 7 member companies to participate in the Human Capital Project for a period of 1 year (01 August 2017 – 31 July 2018) Purpose of Project Is to improve the quality of WSP-ATR submissions which will translate to a credible SSP Project Benefits provided by companies that participated in the project Streamlined and centralised Human Resources information, organisational information and training information OFO mapping has improved

  18. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Qualifications Development Updates

  19. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability QUALIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

  20. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability QUALIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE…

  21. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Thank you Follow us on Social Media @chietasa @CHIETA_SETA @chieta_sa

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