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OPSEU in the process of completing accessibility audits

OPSEU develops an accessibility audit to evaluate its regional offices as a way to highlight all accessibility issues and provide recommendations for fixing them.

The Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union (OPSEU/NUPGE) is currently in the process of doing Accessibility Audits of all the union’s regional offices.

Members of the union’s Disability Rights Caucus (DRC) worked with staff in the summer of 2008 in developing a sample Accessibility Audit to review OPSEU’s facilities. The sample audit was used to evaluate OPSEU’s Region 7 (northern Ontario) facilities, which resulted in the DRC completing a report listing the accessibility needs in the Region 7 offices. .

Based on the information collected, initial work has already been done on Regional Offices in Dryden and Thunder Bay to make them more accessible.

Based on the work done in Region 7, an OPSEU Accessibility Audit was finalized and used to evaluate the facilities in the union’s other six regions. to complete ay Audits of the Regional Offices. Reports based on information collected from the audits are now in the process of being completed.

Greg Snider, DRC Co-Chair and member of OPSEU’s Human Rights Committee notes, “This will be a very long process and OPSEU has set aside money in its budget to complete the accessibility work. There is a long term commitment to continue this work, which is to include a process for reporting new barriers as they arrive.”
 

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