DDA Compliance doors

The DDA legislation (Disability Discrimination Act Part 111), places a duty on all service providers in the UK to remove or alter physical features in their buildings that make access to services either impossible or unreasonably difficult for a person with disabilities, either by adapting an entrance to make it suitable for disabled people to use or creating a new disabled entrance.

Further to this, recent UK Building Regulations (Document M) have been published which mandate that all new building construction, intended for public use or access, must comply fully with the DDA legislation in relation to disabled entrances. It further states that a way of achieving compliance, is to fit automatic operators to existing manual swing door entrances or any manual doors on travel routes used by disabled persons, to make them more readily available for disabled users replacing existing doors with either new automatic sliding doors or automatic swing doors to create a new disabled entrance. See further details at www.odpm.gov.uk

This Act is in addition to the requirement for employers to provide equal access for able bodied and disabled staff to the work place highlighting the need to consider the creation of disabled entrances and access to an individual’s place of work within a building, using automatic swing doors or automatic sliding doors.

As experts in the UK automatic door industry, Automate UK takes a proactive approach to the Disability Discrimination Act in order to ensure that our customers meet the necessary requirements in relation to disabled entrances utilising automatic door operators of the highest quality and expertly qualified automatic door engineers offering a first class service.

for more information please visit:

Government Disability website
(http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/fs/en)

Government Building regulations website
(http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1131116)