Our 4 top tips to overcome barriers and build inclusion

2025 is the year for change in your workplace. We thought we’d reshare our 4 top tips and strategies on how to overcome barriers to build employer confidence and create inclusion.

1. Create a culture where employees feel safe to disclose their disability and request reasonable adjustments. You can do this by providing disability awareness training, promoting positive role models, and celebrating disability inclusion initiatives.
2. Hiring more people with disability, especially for leadership positions, to increase the representation and visibility of disability in your organisation.
3. Equip managers/team leads with tools and resources to support individual needs and preferences of employees with disability. You can provide guidance on how to conduct inclusive interviews, how to implement workplace adjustments, and how to address any issues or concerns.
4. Make accessibility a priority in your workplace, by ensuring that your physical environment, technology, and communication are barrier-free and user-friendly for people with a physical disability.

The Building Employer Confidence program by EmployAbility.

Our Building Employer Confidence (BEC) programme is helping employers to create job opportunities for people with physical disability. The program creates a pathway for employers through continuous assessment, inclusion training, and advice and guidance from our specialist team with lived experience of disability, with immediate access to suitably skilled job-ready candidates.

By the end of our BEC program you will feel confident in hiring people with physical disability as well as creating and maintaining a disability friendly workspace, supported by our dedicated team throughout the entire journey.

It all starts with a free disability initial assessment for your organisation.

Call our National Employer Engagement Manager Miranda (Maz) Fenwick today to start knocking down your barriers 02 7202 0941 or email employability@scia.org.au