RDWS-DT-01 · Defined Term 4
The governing principle: a dog friendly workplace welcomes and provides for dogs without forcing any colleague into proximity against a genuine medical or comparable need.
The governing principle: a dog friendly workplace welcomes and provides for dogs without forcing any colleague into proximity against a genuine medical or comparable need.
Part of the Roch Dog Workplace Standard (RDWS-01) · Published by Roch Dog
The principle on which the whole standard rests, in two halves that must both hold. A dog friendly workplace welcomes dogs and provides properly for them, and it does so without forcing any colleague into proximity with a dog against a genuine medical, allergic, phobic or comparable need.
Welcoming the dog is not enough on its own, and neither is protecting the people who opt out. Both are required. A workplace that achieves one by sacrificing the other is not dog friendly under this standard.
The two halves are not in tension. A workplace that looks after the opt-out people is the one where dogs actually get to stay, because there is no resentment building up to kill the policy.