MYTH: Workers with disabilities should be placed in roles where safety is less of an issue because they are more likely to have accidents.

REALITY:

There's absolutely ZERO proof of this. Anywhere.

In fact, on average, employees with disabilities have lower rates of accidents and injuries than their counterparts that do not have disabilities. Walgreens is a great example of this. Walgreens has two distribution centres in Connecticut and South Carolina with large disability workforces (more than 40% of employees). In comparison to all other distribution centres in the company, these two had a 40% lower safety-related incident rate, 67% lower medical treatment costs, 63% lower employee time away from work due to accidents, and 78 percent lower overall costs associated with accidents. Those numbers speak for themselves.