Occupational Safety and Hygiene for Disabled Employees
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Dear Employers
The Israel Institute for Occupational Safety and Hygiene assists the development of services in
the community, by means of the funds division, in order to improve the welfare of populations
at risk and broadening their opportunities. This division works by means of five funds: The
fund for developing services for the disabled, the fund for enhancing nursing programs, the
fund for unique workshops, the fund for developing services for children and youngsters
at risk and the fund for financing occupational safety and hygiene operations (‘Manof’).
TheManof fund finances projects and studies for enhancing safety and hygiene in workplaces
and preventing work accidents.
The disabled people population belongs to a unique employees’ group with specific needs
in the field of occupational safety, due to their functional disabilities. Going to work is an
important part of their lives and upon their rehabilitation it is important to increase the
awareness of their safety. At the same time, it is necessary to remove the employers’ fears
of handling these specific needs.
The National Insurance Institute has initiated a pioneering program for enhancing the
occupational safety of disabled employees who are employed in protected workshops
and in the free market, by means of the Manof fund in the funds division. The goal of this
program is removing the occupational obstacles they often face and provide them with a
safe working environment that fits their needs.
The production of this booklet is part of the program of developing tools for reducing the
occupational risks of disabled employees. We hope that the tools for the employers and the
managers included here will open the workplaces’ gates for disabled people and provide
them with the opportunity to become equal members both at work and in the society.
The employers who are willing to handle the absorption and/or further employment of
the disabled workers benefit frommotivated employees who are willing to prove that their
contribution can be as good as the contribution of any other employees.
Sincerely
Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef
Director General, the National Insurance Institute
