S.D.
Whitman and S.A.
Freeman
NIOSH Education and Information Division
Improving
Your Rural Business with the ADA is a self-contained training
resource package targeted toward rural business owners. It
is a program that can be used to assist rural business owners
as well as other community members in understanding and implementing
the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Business owners
will learn how the ADA can have a positive impact on their
businesses. Priority is given to providing information to
help improve attitudes of business owners toward the ADA an
people with disabilities.
This
resource package includes a 13-minute videotape about making
rural businesses more accessible, copy-ready overhead transparencies,
handouts, and brochures. The package also includes a leader's
guide that will help in organizing and conducting an ADA training
session in your community.
Specifically,
this package will help rural business owners:
- Gain
better understanding of the Americans with Disabilities
Act
- Learn
how the law can benefit their businesses
- Increase
positive community awareness of people with disabilities
- Become
aware of the attitudinal and physical barriers present in
their businesses
- Learn
practical solutions to remove such barriers
- Become
acquainted with resource agencies available to answer questions
relating to the ADA
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This
research abstract was extracted from a portion of the proceedings
of "Agricultural Safety and Health: Detection, Prevention
and Intervention," a conference presented by the Ohio State
University and the Ohio Department of Health, sponsored by
the Centers for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
S.D.
Whitman and S.A. Freeman, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
IN.
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