Mechanisms currently in place to increase the ability of physically disabled population to work in industry

Abstract

About one billion of the world population have some form of disability and governments spend huge y to provide welfare and accessibility facilities, and protect their rights to make them inclusive. The aim of this review is to find out mechanisms and practices currently in place to increase the ability of physically disabled people to work in industry with a view to improve their employability. The literature revealed that people with disabilities (PWDs) are willing to work if they are provided with necessary job support. However, key barriers to employing PWDs are; employers not having an understanding about how to identify and select PWDs for available vacancies, inability to determine their work capacity, lack of performance measurement strategies and on-the-job support for PWDs. Employers need to provide amenities such as accessible pathways, auxiliary devices and safe and comfortable sanitary facilities if needed, but they are unable to predict the successes and failures of the outcomes of recruiting PWDs to their organisations. This paper explores aspects of managing PWDs at work and proposes further research needed to categorise workrelated needs of PWDs based on their physical capabilities and limitations to help design work tasks that could be carried out by them.