DDA -
What is the Disability Discrimination Act?
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was introduced to end discrimination against disabled people. The Act gives disabled people new rights concerning:
- Employment
- Access to goods, facilities and services
- The management, buying or renting of land or property
Our Disability Access Audit report meets the requirements that came into force in 2004.
What would RM Risk Management’s Disability Access Audit cover? All aspects of disabled access including:
- Corridors
- Doors
- Internal ramps
- Internal stairs
- Lifts
- Platform lifts and stair lifts
- Sanitary accommodation
- Facilities
- Signage and way finding
- Lighting and surfaces
- Acoustics, means of escape
- Building management
- Approaches, routes and street furniture
- Car parking
- External ramps and stairs
- Entrances
- Reception and lobby areas
Are you discriminating? Please contact our principal consultant Tony Fogarty on 0121 236 0642 or email: tony.fogarty@rmriskmanagement.com to find out.
