Your business case

How are higher productivity & reduced costs important for your business?

• Ability to exploit the enabling potential of technology
• Better people management & increased supervisor skills
• Reduced health & safety costs, inc. lower accident costs, fewer lost working days, lower incidence of work related disability
• Healthy enabling working environments and reduced sickness absence
• Efficient use of people through timely provision of reasonable adjustments
• Improved employee morale & engagement as people realise they themselves would be treated fairly should they become disabled

3 key facts

• 3.4 million disabled people are in work [i]; Over 90% of employers who had recently employed a person with a disability said they would be happy to continue employing disabled people [ii]
• Research shows that training supervisors in effectively managing disability improves employee relations, reduces sickness absence and builds managerial skills [iii]
• Employers expert in making reasonable adjustments can make typical savings of £2,000 through return to work and increased productivity per individual [iv]