[access-uk] Re: Discrimination or simple comon sence.
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:48:07 -0000
No Andy, its certainly not common sense. I think that, between
them, Brendon and Colin have got it right. disgusting
discrimination mingled with covering your back on the part of the
H&S officer. Fight it all the way.
Really concerns me how much H&S is being used as yet another
barrier, but who in their right mind oposes H&C? Well, I for one
do when I meet up with this sort of pathetic cretin.
Ray
Personal emails: Email me at
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hughs Mail" <hugh.megarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Discrimination or simple comon sence.
No your not over reacting and you should try to have a
rehabilitation
officer do the assessment and if they have a duty of care then
that should
extend to anywhere that you might be expected to work note the
news article
on the news today about the phone with the panic button on it for
care
workers who work in the community health workers nurses and such
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
Andy
Sent: 02 March 2005 20:19
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Discrimination or simple comon sence.
Hi all.
I have just secured a social workers post with a Scottish Local
Authority
and Access to Work are planning an I.T assessment to ascertained
my
technology needs. In addition to these, I was advised by Access
to Work to
arrange a Health and Safety Assessmentthat a copy of this be sent
to ATW.
Today, I visited my new place of work, where I am due to commence
employment
on 11th April, and met with a Health and Safety expert, who had
been
commissioned by his employer, the same local authority, to
undertake the
assessment.
I suffer from Retinitus Pigmentosa and I am Registered as Blind.
I do have
some limited and confusing vision but generally, I can manage
around a
building/office with no assistance from my guide dog, orbeit,
tentatively
and slowly.
Well, the Health and Safety specialist expressed concern about
me being
located on the second floor landing of the building. He stated
that in a
case of a fire, I may hold up the flow of workers evacuating the
building,
on the stair well. He added that he was concerned for my own
well-being as
well as my colleagues.
Despite advising him repeatedly that I can manage stairs fine and
that I
have never experienced any difficulties negotiating them, he
remained
concerned and concluded by advising my prospective line manager
that he
would be happier if the whole Community Care Team, some six
workers, be
re-located to the ground floor. Alternatively, a second rout of
exit be
built in the form of an external fire escape - the office has
only one exit
at present.
I was advised by my new line manager that the specialist had many
years of
experience behind him, but I could not stop myself from feeling
discriminated against. I don't believe that he has much
experience of
visual impairment and appeared to me to be not listening to my
views. He
advised that the local authority had a duty of care not only to
myself but
to my fellow workers. When I advised him that my job was not
entirely
office based and that I would be expected to get out and about,
visiting
clients in their own homes, flats, villas, terraces, day care
centres,
residential and nursing homes, sheltered housing complexes etc
etc etc, he
advised that he was not concerned about that.
Surely, if my new employer has a duty of care towards me this
must include
when out and about as one of their representatives.
In any case, his views have resulted in causing alarm to my new
line manager
and I'm convinced that if another visually impaired person was to
be
interviewed tomorrow, then they may have less of a chance of
securing a
post.
Am I simply over-reacting to this one person's views and being
unreasonable
myself? Is the specialist discriminating against me? Should I
challenge
his views and become a threat to my new employer?
I intend to express my feelings in writing to begin with and
express concern
to my line manager about his limited experience of visual
impairment and I
would like a Rehabilitation Officer, from the same authority, to
undertake a
mobility assessment within the office block. Does this sound
reasonable
folks, or as I said above, am I perhaps over-reacting?
Best wishes.
Andy from sunny Kilcreggan.
Drop me a wee line at:
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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