Choosing between an on-site and a virtual workplace assessment for sight or hearing loss: home working, several sites, equipment, rapport and return to work.
Having sight or hearing loss does not make someone an expert in workplace adjustments. Why employers should not leave it to the employee to work it out.
How a return to work assessment can help income protection claims involving sight or hearing loss: adjustments, phased returns, Access to Work and report content.
Listening fatigue is the tiredness that follows sustained effort to hear at work. What the research shows, and practical adjustments employers and referrers can try.
When to commission a return to work assessment for sight or hearing loss, what a good report contains, and how it links to fit notes, phased returns and Access to Work.
If you have been told you are having a workplace assessment, or you are an employer arranging one for the first time, it is reasonable
The call usually comes from a manager or an HR team, and it nearly always starts the same way: we have a valued member of
When someone is told their sight is deteriorating, one of the first thoughts is nearly always work. Can I keep doing my job? Do I
Hearing loss is easy to hide and exhausting to live with. The colleague who nods along in the noisy meeting, laughs a beat after everyone
Picture a team meeting. Eight people around a table, ideas moving quickly, conversation overlapping. Now picture being the one Deaf person in that room, with
