| Reasonable adjustment |
Impairment |
Concrete solution |
| Making adjustments to premises |
Wheelchair user |
Widening a doorway; providing a ramp; moving furniture |
| Difficulty in reaching |
Relocating light switches, door handles and shelves |
| Visual impairment |
Providing appropriate contrast in decor |
| Allocating some duties to another person. |
Vertigo |
If the job involves working on the open roof, asking someone else to do it. |
| Internal transfer |
A person who has become disabled |
Retraining; acquiring equipment for a new post; promotion |
| Altering working hours |
Fatigue, difficulty to travel in the rush hour |
Allowing flexible hours; allowing extra breaks; a phased return to work |
| Assigning the person to a different place of work |
Wheelchair user |
Relocating the work station to the ground floor or to a different building |
| Allowing absence during working hours for rehabilitation, assessment, treatment |
A disabled person who needs rehabilitation or treatment |
Allowing more time off work than would be allowed to non-disabled employees |
| Arranging training for the disabled person and/or other workers |
Restricted hand or arm movements |
Longer or different training relating to the use of equipment |
| Visual impairment |
Training in additional software using a computer with speech output |
| Deafness |
Training staff on conducting meetings in a way that allows a deaf person to take an active part |
| Loss of confidence due to a stroke |
Hiring a work mentor and allowing the worker time off to see the mentor |
| Acquiring or modifying equipment |
Arthritis |
An adapted keyboard |
| Visual impairment |
A large screen |
| Hearing impairment |
An adapted telephone |
| Modifying instructions or reference manuals |
Visual impairment |
Texts being produced in Braille or on audio CD |
| Learning disabilities |
Conveying instructions in Easy Read or orally with individual demonstration |
| Restricted manual dexterity |
Replace a written test by an oral test |
| Providing a reader or interpreter |
Visual impairment |
Arranging another worker to read hard copy post at particular times; hiring a reader |
| Providing supervision or other support |
Lack of confidence due to a disability |
Providing a support worker or arranging help from a colleague |
| Allowing a disabled worker to take a period of disability leave |
Cancer |
Allowing a disability leave to undergo treatment and rehabilitation |
| Participating in supported employment schemes, such as Work step |
Recovering from depression |
Allowing the employee to call their support worker |
| Employing a support worker to assist a disabled worker |
Visual impairment |
Employing a support worker to accompany a disabled advisor during home visits to clients. |
| Modifying disciplinary or grievance procedures |
Learning disability |
Allowing a worker to bring a friend to a meeting with the employer about a grievance. |
| Adjusting redundancy selection criteria |
Autoimmune disease |
Taking absences into account whilst selecting people for redundancy, periods of disability-related absence must be disregarded. |
| Modifying performance-related pay arrangements |
Unspecified disability |
If an employer pays a worker on their output, they must pay additional hourly rate for the breaks that the employee may need to take during the day. |
| A combination of steps |
Visual impairment |
Arranging facilities for the assistance dog; providing instructions in Braille; providing disability equality training to all staff |
