Why Good Signage is Important for Disabled Employees
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Why Good Signage is Important for Disabled Employees
Making your workplace and store accessible
for your disabled employees is incredibly important. Good signage can help you
to do this. As such, if you are interested in how good signage can help and
support your disabled employees, read on.
It Can Help Them Get Around
Good signage can ensure that your disabled
employees are more easily able to get around their workplace and all your
business’s premises. The signs will be able to tell them where all the most
important places in
your workplace are and how they can get there. These signs should be large
and bright and should be at the right height for wheelchair users. You might
also consider using Braille on your signs so that they can be read by blind
employees. If you want to create signs that may be useful to your disabled
employees, you should consider investing in custom stencils.
These stencils will allow you to create any sign that you want and have in mind
and can prevent problems from occurring when it comes to your disabled
employees and poor signage.
It Can Highlight Exits
The safety of your disabled employees is
just as important as the safety of your other employees, and yet disabled
people are often forgotten when it comes to workplace safety. As such, good
signage can help them to know about the disabled and accessible exits in your
building and where the nearest exit is to their workstation. This can ensure
that they are then able to easily leave the building if there is an emergency,
such as a fire. This means that your disabled employees will be able to keep
themselves safe at all times. You may also look into getting these signs to
light up so that they can be seen if the electricity in your building goes off.
It is also important to put signs next to disabled refuge points and other
areas that your disabled employees may need to know about and that you run
drills to ensure that everyone knows what they should do in an emergency.
Helps Them to See Your Disability Measures
Good signs can also allow disabled people
to notice and find the measures that you have put in place to keep them
comfortable. For instance, you should make sure that disabled toilets are
clearly labeled so that they are not solely used by your non-disabled members
of staff. You should also make sure that disabled parking spaces and access
points are also clearly labeled with signs, as this will ensure that your
disabled employees do not feel as if they have not been accommodated properly.
Good signage is important to keep your disabled
employees happy and safe and to ensure that they can find everything that they
need within their workplace. This can then ensure that your disabled employees
are not at a disadvantage and that they can use all the facilities that are on
offer in your building. One of your priorities, when
you are employing disabled employees, should then be to invest in all of
the signage that you need.