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Introduction

As an employer, you want to keep your employees safe, especially in emergencies. Ontario’s Accessibility Standard for Employment can help you do that. Under the standard, if you have employees with disabilities you must provide individualized emergency response information to them by January 1, 2012.

This includes making your emergency information accessible, or developing a plan to help an employee with a disability during an emergency.

Quick Fact: What is accessible information?

You can make a document accessible by recreating it in a different format; for example, printing it in large print for someone with vision loss. This is called an “accessible format.”

But you can also make information accessible by helping someone to use the original document or resource; for example, by reading it aloud. This is called a “communication support.” Other examples include adding captioning to videos or using written notes to communicate with someone who is hard of hearing.

Everyone is different, so simply do what works best.