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Empowering Inclusivity: Disability Toolkit for Chemical Sector Employers

Explore the CHIETA Disability Toolkit for Chemical Sector Employers to assist with employing people living with disabilities. Gain insights on legislative imperatives, reasonable accommodation, and increasing employment opportunities, ensuring inclusivity and understanding of disability in the workplace. Access resources, examples, and tools through the seven chapters of the toolkit, along with an assessment tool for self-evaluation. Learn about the benefits of employing individuals with disabilities, contribution to national transformation agendas, and CHIETA incentives for skills development. Discover research funding opportunities and proposed topics for enhancing skills, fostering economic growth, and promoting employability in the chemical sector.

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Empowering Inclusivity: Disability Toolkit for Chemical Sector Employers

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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 SSP Project Plan and SSDD Updates

  4. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Sector Skills Plan: Project Plan

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

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

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

  8. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Introduction According to the 2017 WSP submissions, there were approximately 1 437 employees with disabilities working in the Chemical Sector out of 169 181 total workforce in the sector.This equates to 0.8% of total employment in the sector: Overall slow movement in this area of transformation within the sector! Stakeholders through the CHIETA Chambers, noted the difficulty of employing people with disabilities in certain occupations due to health and safety requirements and to a certain extent, minimal understanding by the employer of key concepts and legislative requirements around employing people with disabilities, particularly difficult in key production occupations. The CHIETA in consultation with the Chambers, identified a need to develop a Disability Toolkit to assist with understanding disability in the workplace

  9. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Purpose of the People living with Disabilities Toolkit To assist the 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.

  10. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Content: Key Points The CHIETA “People Living With Disabilities Toolkit” (PWD Toolkit), consists of seven (7) chapters: Each Chapter provides FACTS on relevant legislation/good practices and EXAMPLES with practical steps to be followed for implementation of the toolkit The toolkit has an ASSESSMENT TOOL to be used by Employers to assess themselves against facilities requirements

  11. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Content: Key Points

  12. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Content: Key Points

  13. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Content: Key Points

  14. 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%) Contribution to national imperative: Transformation Agenda 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

  15. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability People with Disability Toolkit Where to find it?

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

  17. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Window: 2018-2019

  18. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Window:2018-2019…

  19. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Research Funding Window:2018-2019…

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

  21. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Qualifications Development Update

  22. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability QUALIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: Completed in 2017/18

  23. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability QUALIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: Planned for 2018/19

  24. 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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