Workplace Assessments for Employees with Sight or Hearing Loss
Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusivity in Your Organisation
We conduct comprehensive Workplace Assessments in the UK and Ireland for employees with vision impairments, who are Deaf, or who have hearing loss and/or tinnitus. We aim to support employees with sensory impairments while helping your organisation become more accessible, inclusive and equal for everyone.
The Visualise Approach
We pride ourselves on our comprehensive and empathetic approach to workplace assessments. Our team of experts has both lived and professional experience with sensory impairments, ensuring that we understand the unique challenges faced by your employees.
This video highlights how the process works (includes BSL and subtitles)…
We adopt a holistic approach to identify work-based challenges and recommend practical solutions that benefit employees, their colleagues and the organisation. Our assessments include:
- Tasks and Duties: To identify potential barriers and challenges.
- Working Environment: Physical workspaces to ensure they are conducive to the employee’s needs.
- Display Screen Equipment (DSE): Computer use and other devices to recommend adjustments.
- Assistive Technology: To aid employees in performing their roles more effectively.
- Procedural Changes: To enhance accessibility and inclusivity.
- Interaction with Colleagues and Customers: To aid communication, interaction and inclusion.
- External Factors: Addressing travel and home-related challenges that may impact work performance.
Workplace Assessments for Employees with Visual Impairment
Sight loss impacts over two million people in the UK, with approximately 250 people starting to lose their sight every day. Our Sight Loss Workplace Assessments ensure that appropriate reasonable adjustments are recommended that promote inclusive, accessible, and equitable working practices.
Hearing Loss Assessments
Hearing loss affects five million people of working age in the UK. Being fully aware of and meeting the needs of staff members with additional requirements is essential for any inclusive employer. Our holistic workplace assessments ensure that employees with hearing loss have opportunities to develop their careers successfully while feeling valued as part of the team. We can advise on specialist equipment and workplace adjustments and recommend bespoke tuition, such as lipreading classes.
Testimonials
Here’s what our clients say about our Workplace Assessments:
- “The process was very easy. I was a little apprehensive as having hearing aids is very new to me but the assessor was amazing and understood everything. She explained everything clearly and put my mind at rest regarding the assistive equipment I was going to receive.”
- “The assessor was lovely. She was very helpful, considerate, knowledgeable, and gave me some really good advice. I’m quite new to hearing aids and didn’t know what was available for work or home.”
- “It was accessible but my Microsoft Teams crashed so I rang the assessor on my mobile which was great as I could hear her clearly and I didn’t have to use my headset as it pushes my hearing aids into my ears and head. Thank you.”
- “The assessment was extremely helpful and accessible, and I can’t find enough words to say how brilliant the assessor was. She was reassuring, comforting, confident, and knowledgeable. I have been struggling for years with hearing loss and she made me feel like I wasn’t alone. However much you are paying her, she deserves more!”
- “The process was effortless, and the assessor was a consummate professional with extensive expertise that made me feel at ease and in exceptionally capable hands. She provided an engaging and holistic approach to my explicit needs by looking at solutions to fit me rather than the other way around.”