[Announcer] The Employment Standard is part
of the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation
of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.
This standard helps employers make their employment practices
and workplaces more accessible to potential
and existing employees with disabilities.
This video deals with one of the requirements
of the employment standard.
In this exciting episode,
Harold Jeepers, in -
Workplace Emergency Response Information.
This is Harold.
He is a new manager at Jiffy Brothers Industries.
Harold is part of a company-wide team
tasked with making certain
Jiffy's Emergency Response Plan works.
Harold has been asked to focus
on Individualized Emergency Response Plans.
This is Sonja.
She is Jiffy Brothers' go-to HR person,
and a Certified Human Resources Professional.
She asks Harold what he's doing with the crutches?
Harold explains that he really wants
to understand the barriers he would face
if he personally had a broken foot
and had to leave the building in an emergency.
Sonja is quizzical.
Harold gives her a stop watch
and asks her to time how long it takes for him
to exit the building.
[beep] [music commences, similar to Chariots of Fire]
Oh, No!
[falling and crashing sounds]
[beep]
Back at the Harold's office,
Sonja tells him to just follow Jiffy Brothers' HR policies
and processes for an Emergency Response Plan.
Review your organization's
overall emergency response plan.
Check that those employees
with existing individual accommodation plans
also have individualized emergency response information,
if needed.
Determine who else needs help
and how to best meet their emergency response needs.
Once an employee makes a request,
you must provide the information
as soon as possible.
Provide emergency response information to employees
based on their accessibility needs.
This is also part of the Accessible Formats
and Communications requirement of the Employment Standard.
Involve ...
with the employee's consent,
ensure information is provided to those
who will be helping that employee in an emergency.
Review emergency response information -
when a new employee comes on board,
when an employee moves to a different location,
when an employee's Individual accommodation plan is reviewed,
every time you review your general emergency response policies.
Harold tells Sonja that he guesses
he won't be needing these.
You have been watching
Workplace Emergency Response Information.
The story you have just seen is real,
but the names have been changed for plausible deniability.