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Risk Managers ... ADA Considerations

Job Smart System (JSS) dispels the traditional assumptions about ADA, Reasonable Accommodations and job descriptions. We challenge you to go beyond the thinking that accommodation  only applies to qualified disabled individuals who have physical or mental disabilities like walking, hearing, or seeing.  JSS supports your organization to go see that most disabled people pose no safety risk and do not create undue hardship.

Job Smart System changes your assumptions about employee accommodations from acknowledgments to assets.  With the mean age of the American worker at 45 years of age most employees have age related functional limitations, have sustained some injury, may have a disease and may be disabled. So basically, we need to accommodate for all  employees in order to maintain productive and safe environments where quality work is done.  Accommodation makes good business sense for all employees given the statistics. The average age of the American worker is 45 years old. This means that accommodation for visual acuity is likely, with most people over 40 wearing glasses. In your facility, it is likely that most of your computers users (70% of the jobs in America) have corrective lenses (distance, bifocal, trifocal) . Accommodations to monitors heights should be one of your most frequent equipment accommodations.… Employees often report neck strain and lighting difficulty. Accommodating monitor height will change employee complaints to your competitive advantage. One further point, the average injured employee in 2005 was a 34-year-old male who suffered a musculoskeletal injury such as a wrenched back or injured elbow. Imagine the accommodations to material handling that can change your assumptions on who is disabled!

Job Smart System provides you with success strategies. We assess, plan, and implement (API) accommodations that create engineering controls. JSS integrates productivity and quality into a safety culture.  A 45 factor analysis is used to determine what cost effective accommodations to plan and implement.  JSS incorporates the factors and requirements of American with Disabilities Act, CalOSH , and ANSI/ISO/Q 9001-2000.

The factors assessed are comprehensive to safety culture.

Accessibility                              Lighting                                       Workers                   

Adaptability                              Maintenance Internal

Air Quality                                Maintenance External

Benchmarks                              Material Handling

Comfort                                    Material Resource Conservation

Communication                         Noise

Controls                                    Passages

Cost Effectiveness                     Pick Patterns

Density of Space                       Planning

Design of Space                       Quality

Division of Space                      Recycle

Energy                                      Relocation

Engineering                               Safety

Equipment                                Signage

Finishes                                    Software

Furnishings                               Temperature

Housekeeping                           Tools

Image                                       Training's

Instrument                                Transport

Interplant Transfer                    Vendors

Landscaping                             Waste Management

Legibility of forms                      Windows

  Job Smart System is first and best at reducing your liability for work related injuries to employees. We help you to  change your assumptions and build a culture of ergonomic supports that accommodate people.

JSS avoids the situation where the preponderance of evidence is that risk is by job title and that related work tasks (lifting)are the standard cause of injury. Developing hazard-engineering controls, no matter what the level of risk, training requirement (ISO, OSHA), and accommodation  (ADA) all depend on competency based job descriptions. By writing Job-Smart job descriptions organizations can use realistic data to provide a safe work place. Communication is unbiased and consistent between all parties. Job descriptions can provide employees with an adequate number of competent coworkers when they define the job beyond education and experience to comprehensively defined competencies. Job descriptions that realistically define work include knowledge, psychology, biomechanics, sensory, safety and quality competencies. Providing safe tools and equipment can be directly linked to job descriptions that define knowledge required to operate specific types of tools (saw) equipment (surgical drill), or computer equipment. In addition, competency based job descriptions can warn employees of inherent dangers in the work place more effectively if the job description details the biomechanics of a lifting competency.  

JSS IS YOUR ADA STRATEGIST!

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