Israel Institute for Occupational Safety and Hygiene
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Safety and Health of disabled people at their workplaces
Contents
According to the law, the employer is responsible for providing a safe workplace while
maintaining the employees’ safety and health. Maintaining safety and health requires the
common effort of both the management and the employees. The goal of this booklet
is raising the awareness of employing people with physical and sensory disability, while
providing tools that will assist in maintaining their health and preventing accidents.
This booklet has two parts. Part A generally discusses the employment of disabled people
and part B focuses on occupational safety and health aspects of employees with physical,
sensory and mental disabilities.
Additionally, attached as appendices, are assisting forms for the performance of risk surveys
and safety and hygiene analyses.
Part A – Disabled employees in Israel
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Integration of disabled people at work in theory and in practice – Hiskiya Israel
- manager of social insurance department and reciprocal contacts with the
Knesset, the Israel industrialists association, and chairman of the disability
committee of the National Insurance Institute board
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Social responsibility of employers - Dr. Ruti Naor - Deputy director general of
the ‘fund’ network of professional diagnosis and rehabilitation centers
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Emphasis of the equality law, 5768 – 1998
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The improved law for disabled pensions of peoplewho go towork (The Laron Law)
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PartB - tools forpromotingoccupational safetyandhealthofdisabledpeople
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Tools for identification, assessment, and control of workplace risks
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Environmental risk survey in places with disabled employees
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Safety and health analysis for occupations of disabled employees (JSA)
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‘Employers’ support center’, center for the integration of people with disabilities
in the labor market in the Ministry of Economy
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Useful links
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