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Once you have identified essential functions of the job as well as the individual’s abilities and limitations, you are in a position to determine the following:
Consult with a number of people to identify potential accommodations.
- Consult with the applicant or employee to determine what he or she needs to enable him or her to perform the job.
- Consult with operations, safety, or medical personnel, as appropriate, to determine whether the employee’s proposed accommodation is feasible and whether the Postal Service can make other accommodations. You may offer alternative suggestions for reasonable accommodations and discuss their effectiveness in removing the workplace barrier that is impeding the individual.
- If in districts, areas, and Headquarters, consult with RACs to identify potential accommodations.
- Consult with people from outside the Postal Service, particularly state agencies and nonprofit organizations dedicated to assisting people with disabilities in the workplace. As an example, the national Job Accommodation Network (JAN) can provide information, free of charge, about all aspects of job accommodation. You may contact them in any of the following ways:
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