New guides for business on guide dogs, assistance animals and emotional support animals

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Business Disability Forum has published a series of short guides today (7 November) offering advice to all businesses on how to welcome disabled customers and employees with assistance and support animals. ‘Guide dogs, assistance animals and emotional support animals’ explains the different types of animals that some disabled people rely on in their daily lives….

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How do you tackle a job like global disability inclusion? Reflections from the Global Roundtable, 19 October 2023.

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The Global Roundtable was kindly sponsored by HSBC.   By Diane Lightfoot, CEO, Business Disability Forum I’m sure many of you will have asked – or been asked – a variant of an equally tough question, “How do we approach disability inclusion as a company when we have a hundred offices in a dozen different…

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Is occupational health working for disabled employees or against them?

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We’ve just had Occupational Health Awareness Week (18-24 September). This was, quite rightly, a time to stress the importance of employers having a good occupational health function in place. You might have seen some of our advice for employers released to mark the week. It comes back to a vital point: occupational health can play…

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How do you use occupational health in the workplace? 6 occupational health-related considerations to discuss in your organisations now

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This week is Occupational Health Awareness Week and to mark it, we want to support employers to start a discussion about their use of occupational health for their workforce. Back in June, we published The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023, sponsored by Microlink, which included feedback from managers and employees with disabilities and long-term…

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Pandemic: The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Interruption 

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There is a great urban legend about the moment the BBC resumed normal television programming in 1946, after the Second World War. Just before picking up precisely where the channel had left off in 1939, the announcer said: “As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…”  Is it just a legend? Sadly, yes….

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We’re growing – our year in numbers

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It’s been an exciting year for growth here at Business Disability Forum. 135 organisations of all sizes, sectors and industries have joined us for advice and support with their disability smart journeys, taking us to over 550 Members and Partners – over half are global. It’s been a busy year for our events with over…

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Have your say on your experience of remote and hybrid working 

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Hybrid and remote working seem to be here to stay. HSBC is a notable recent example of an employer acknowledging hybrid working as a factor in their choice of office space. Meanwhile, statistics quoted by the Guardian suggest workers in Central London are typically spending 2.3 days a week in the office on average –…

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Do disability passports really work?

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In theory, the disability passport could be a major time-saver and problem-solver for many employees. Serving both to identify adjustments an employee might need and to record adjustments that have already been agreed, the disability passport should make it easier for employees with disabilities and long-term conditions to move into – and between – jobs….

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Disability Action Plan published: Disability charities respond

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The Government has published its Disability Action Plan today (18 July). Business Disability Forum has responded as a member of the the Disability Charities Consortium (DCC). The DCC brings together CEOs and policy leads from nine of the UK’s leading not-for-profit disability organisations to work collaboratively to make sure disabled people’s experiences are reflected in UK…

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Annual Conference 2023 session highlights: Retaining older disabled workers – mission impossible?

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Andy Briggs, CEO of Phoenix Group, spoke at our Annual Conference: Back to the future on 28 June 2023 on the topic of retaining older disabled workers. Here are the highlights from his presentation and his recommendations for employers. Context The UK population is ageing, and so is the labour market: around 30% of the…

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Annual Conference 2023 session highlights: The circle of life – who cares?

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Our recent Annual Conference: Back to the Future included the panel discussion “The circle of life: who cares?” with speakers Natalie Quilter, Eleni Katsoulis, Chantel Emery and Daniel Cadey talking about working carers. Read the highlights from the session by our Disability Business Partner Becky Elliott.  Watching our Annual Conference remotely, I was looking forward…

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Hearing loss or sight loss needn’t mean job loss

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By Dan Williams. Dan Williams is the Founding Director of BDF Member Visualise Training and Consultancy – the workplace accessibility and inclusion experts. In this blog, he looks at how challenges faced by employees with hearing loss or visual impairment can be overcome. Hearing loss, deafness, tinnitus and sight loss affect 14 million people in…

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