1. Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT)
  2. Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool for organizations

JDAPT for a job

  • Introduction
  • Instructions
  • Physical demands
  • Cognitive demands
  • Working with others
  • Working conditions
  • Job demands summary
  • Strategies list
  • Results

Introduction

Welcome to the Job Demands & Accommodation Planning Tool—called JDAPT (pronounced ‘jay-dapt’) for short.

The JDAPT for a job is an easy-to-use online tool intended to identify the important job demands for a position and how those different job tasks might be made more flexible, supportive, and inclusive for workers, which can promote worker well-being.

How does the JDAPT work?

The JDAPT for a job can:

  • help you think about a job and suggest different supports or accommodations your organization could provide if a worker was having difficulties with job demands related to their health or a disability
  • guide a conversation around workplace supports that may be available to meet a worker’s and the organization’s needs when hiring, onboarding, or managing the day-to-day tasks of a worker

How does the JDAPT help?

The JDAPT for a job can be used for almost all types of jobs.

It focuses on managing specific job demands and moves the conversation away from a health diagnosis or symptoms, which workers often want to remain private.

Some of the ideas and strategies can be implemented by the worker on their own.

Other supports might need approval from someone at the organization.

What the JDAPT is NOT

The JDAPT is:

  • not a formal functional assessment, job analysis or cognitive demands analysis tool;
  • not a screening or selection tool for hiring or promotion;
  • not meant to provide advice regarding disclosure of an ongoing health condition or disability;
  • not intended to provide expert or legal advice;
  • not a job performance evaluation tool.

Who created the JDAPT?

The JDAPT is grounded in research and was developed by the Accommodating and Communicating about Episodic Disabilities (ACED) team, housed at the Institute for Work & Health, a not-for-profit research organization based in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about ACED tools, including the JDAPT for workers, here.

The JDAPT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. That means this tool can be used and shared as long as IWH is credited as the source, the information is not modified, and the information is used for non-commercial purposes. Read more here.

Let’s get started. Click “Next Page” for instructions on how to complete the JDAPT.