Dear all, I'm looking for a template disability discrimination act risk assessment, could you please advise where would be the best place to source one? Kind Regards Barney#1

Forgive me but exactly what is a DDA Risk Assessment and how does this differ from any other risk assessment? Why do a specific RA for someone with a disability?

This site might help;- .healthandsafetyatwork---risk-assessments-disabled-workers

I do not have the link to hand but there is an EU report concerning Diversity and Risk assessment - you can google this. The DDA assessment is but part of a larger picture - as emphasised by the Equality Act 2010. Do not forget that setting policy, procedures etc that put any of the stated groups at significant disadvantage could be Indirect Discrimination under the act. If you think about it such things as Pregnat Women assessments, Women of Childbearing Age assessments and Young Persons assessments are all related in this context. Bob

I find that the template that I use for the MHSW risk assessment can be used for almost any form of risk assessment inclusive of disability, diversity, culture etc so try your own template first If you are asking 'What goes into such an assessment' then that is another matter so I would say that you get appropriate specialist help noting that many specialists do not want to share information and argue that their confidentiality is more important than your confidentiality at every turn - where you start to move into Asbergers, Alsimers etc then that is a whole new level but again a good template should cope Your 'mind' set must be completely different but logic is always the same and such assessments can be vital when looking at PEEP's etc and an getting an individuals permission to evaluate such areas is also vital but is almost impossible when 'others' [ who think that they have a monopoly on such areas] hold the power of attorney Why do we do such risk assessments?: Its all down to your workforce/interfaces at work as many people will never need to facilitate such risk assessments in their whole career Best of luck

Ray, i think you can for the good being, but who knows what the future may bring!

Forgive me but I always thought thast when you do a risk assessment you take into account all possible avenues including the effect on disable persons, pregnant women (not men though) and anyone with some sort of difficulty such as not able to read very well. So why do so many risk assessments or is it a public sector job creation scheme that I have not yet heard of?

Thanks Barney, that is exactly the point I was trying to get someone to see. A risk assessment should take into account all known factors such as disability etc otherwise it could be deemed insufficient. When anyone is undertaking a risk assessment they should identify and consider all relevant factors not just go through a paper exercise.

Thank you for all the replies everyone. I'm a bit annoyed that my competence is being called in to question. I work on the basis that one of the key factors of competence is knowing when to ask for help. And the whole point of posting this thread was to ask for help from the libary of knowledge on here. Thank you everyone who's replied with constructive comments. I wonder if people refrain from positing questions on the forum just in case they get shot down - " he's incompetent ". Barney#1

Sorry ChrisBurns, I took it in the wrong context. Barney#1

Just to remind you all that IOSH does have a Working Party looking into aspects of diversity for the Institution itself and for practitioners. Contact Simon Buckler at the Grange if there are issues you regard as important or for information. Bob

I'm probably one of those smarty pants - am I? However you will find some of my requests for information on issues I am not competent at just the same as everyone else. My point was that Barney needed information because he didn't know enough about this topic. I was not criticising him at all. I'm just bad at politics.