Handout: Scenario One (b): Highlighting Accessibility Issues

Role player: HR Officer

You work for a private company that has 60 employees. The company is based on the outskirts of town and has a building that combines both production and office staff including HR, accounts and sales.

The company is small but growing, you were promoted this year to head of HR, and have one assistant working for you. The accounting department is also small, and apart from the Chief accountant there are three other staff - oh, and of course, the new employee, well s/he is not really part of the team, s/he just does some of the reconciling and general clerical duties. You had almost forgotten about her/him, because s/he is downstairs and all the office staff are mainly upstairs, downstairs is for production. You had hoped they would try and fit in, but they seem very private and don’t join in much. Tomorrow you have a meeting with them to see how they are settling in as a part of their induction and orientation process. You designed the on-boarding process yourself and are very pleased that you manage to meet every single new staff at least once during their first month. You have decided today to go and visit a consulting company in town that helps facilitate the employment of people with disabilities, because you have a feeling that something is just not right…