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Access and Disability: Essential Law and Practice
The one-day Access and Disability: Essential Law and Practice training course has been specifically designed to help service providers comply with the legislation surrounding access and disability and ventures beyond the Disability and Discrimination Acts to look at how building regulations, health and safety and fire safety laws a...
Course_code | 10 Feb 2012
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Can the DDA and fire safety work together?
...lement in the design of new buildings in the last 20 years, and since 2004 it has been a requirement under the DDA for service providers to remove physical barriers that would hamper a disabled person’s access or egress of a building. Therefore, it should be possible to reconcile fire safety with disability through good practice and thorough planning. Workplace Law is launching guidance this week which will examine the complex relationship between fire safety legislation and disability discrimination. To register your interest in the Fire and disability 2008: special report, call 0871 777 8881. ...
News | 7 Aug 2007
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3 strikes and your fire's not out!
...PEOPLE BE DYING IN OFFICES? Claire Fuller asks the Department for Communities "'The fear is of course that in ten years' time people will start to die in offices.' Could there be any truth to this statement?" P. 20 3 www.workplacelaw.net All the information you need to reconcile fire safety and disability in your workplace Key questions answered: n Can the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 work alongside each other? n What do I need to do to make sure an evacuation happens safely? n What training should I be carrying out to make sure everyone is pr...
Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...endar The data | Comme | Clinic | nt Network Case law News and more ... Plus: Legal Page 19 Health and Posting safety gone nuts! Workplace successful Law membe results rs BBC's Panora on Controversial programme: ma cuts: the Royal the time to is now Mail story. stand Page 16 and be counte up d? Disability signage: who wants to toilet door? grope a Page 7 Comment www.workplacelaw.net 3 ioSH managing Safely e-learning Through the Workplace Law Direct Study Centre you can study when you like, where you like, at the speed you want to. IOSH Distance Learning is a unique web-based training course fro...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Disabled parking
... car. If the driver doesn't need to leave the car for any reason there seems to be little need for the extra space, so ANY vacant space would do just as well. If you aren't offering a service to the general public it might be construed that the husband, by using the space, would have been denying access to a disabled member of staff. If the memberof staff is able-bodied she could easily have walked to any of the available parking spaces. This appears to have been an attempt to take the moral high ground by challenging inappropriate use but there is little to show his own use of the space was nec...
Comment | 5 Apr 2011
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Disabled parking bays
... is quoting Health & Safety you need to be careful just in case they have done a proper Risk Assessment which would show that parking in particular places creates a hazard. A vehicle can be removed/relocated if it is causing undue hazard eg where it's position may be likely to impede emergency access or egress for individuals or services, or where it could be a genuine threat to life or limb. A lawyer would look at all the specifics of the case and may also be able to look at issues and 'angles' not covered above, every case being different! Let us know how things turn out, on the face of i...
Comment | 23 Apr 2009
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Disabled parking bays
Michelle, You should do an assessment of the situation. However 5/60 is a very high ratio You could allocate a specific disabled access bay to a new disabled employee or to a newly disabled employee when the need arrises. In fact this would be a good practice. Visitors are a different problem. If visitors are always be appointment then you can ask if they have any access needs and then reserve an appropriate bay and tell them ...
Comment | 29 Jul 2005
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Office Lift Requirements
James L. There is no legal requirement to install lifts to a multi storey car park, but you must remember that access and egress to the levels must take into account able bodied and disabled bodied people. This is a legal requirement in respect of any modification or imrpovement made to the property and you have a duty to includee this in the design of the building.
Comment | 5 Jan 2011
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volunteer who has seizures
Dear Michelle, Thanks for your question, you are right on all your assumptions you have made, in this case you need to fulfill your obligations both under health and safety and under disability legislation. I do not consider there is need of a fit for work doctor’s note as long as your volunteer has disclosed all the necessary information for you to carry out your health and safety obligations, the new starter needs to be aware that he/she has an obligation to help you with health and...
Comment | 12 Aug 2010
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Final exit fire doors
...nd if they are they will almost certainly require self closing devices but your Fire Risk Assessment should also cover this point. The last point that you will need to consider is the type of closer that you require and this will need to have specialist advice as it will depend on the nature of the disability, the mobility of the person and other building requirements eg security. It is interesting that you have raised this particular aspect as most people don't consider it and usually fit the cheapest closer that they can find which usually is the most unsuitable - I normally advise clients to do this...
Comment | 2 Aug 2010
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Evacuation versus invacuation
workplacelaw The exclusive magazine for premium members of the Workplace Law Network Hang on! Evacuation versus invacuation Can it ever be safe to hold on for rescue in a fire emergency? FIRE & DISABILITY SPECIAL JULY / AUGUST 2008 Issue 39 Who's in your building? Knowing who you need to evacuate in an emergency. Page 14 The real stories: Evacuation strategies put to the test. Page 10 Professor Keith Bright: "Access to buildings is not about disabled people, it's about access for everyone" Page 2...
Magazine issue | 10 Jul 2008
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Snow and Ice
Thanks the links you gave were very helpful, I wonder how the DDA fits in to this. i.e. reasonable adjustments, moving snow and ice to all access/egress. Especially if a landlord/housing assopciation with disabled tenants.
Comment | 6 Jan 2010
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What is reasonable adjustment?
...SAFETY, PREMISES MANAGEMENT CONTENTS Legal calendar 06 Forum 07 Reasonable? 08 Check that you are ready for all the events and legal developments taking place in December '06 and January '07. Thoughts and opinions from Workplace Law Network members on a hot topic. In October 2004 Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act placed new responsibilities on service providers to ensure disabled people have equal access to services, but two years on it seems businesses don't really give a damn about whether their service is accessible or not. Where the US leads, Britain often follows -- yet when it comes...
Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2006
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Office Space
Rebecca When considering the amount of office space required, you need to look at the tasks that are being performed, the degree of both individual and co-operative working and access to and from the workstations (with due regard to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005). The Approved Code of Practice associated with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 suggests that each employee (in an office environment) should have at least 11 cubic metres (up to a maximum ceiling height of 3 metres). This figure, however, is ...
Comment | 8 Aug 2007
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Office Space
Its not just about the amount of desks you can fit. Layout, office space per person, lighting, fire escapes, access and egress routes, space planning, welfare facilities, disability considerations etc etc Read the ACOP Workplace (health, safety and welfare) Regulations to begin with.
Comment | 7 Aug 2007
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Workplace Law Publishing launches the Second Edition of the UK’s No.1 Guide to the Disability Discrimination Act Part III.
Workplace Law Publishing has launched the 2004 Edition of the best selling Disability: Making Buildings Accessible Special Report, Second Edition. This comprehensive publication is essential reading for architects, facilities managers and surveyors. The Disability: Making Buildings Accessible Special Report (ISBN 1-900648-84-9) has been fully revised to include the latest changes in...
News | 19 Jan 2004
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How good are evac chairs?
...tor with respect to the DDA and have been a guest speaker for IOSH on seminars on "Evacuating Disabled People". On Thursday I attended a hughely successful and well attended seminar organised by the West Yorkshire Fire Prevention Panel with speakers from all relevant orgainisations including the Disability Rights Commission, Chief Fire Officers, Glyn Evans, advisor to the Fire Brigade Union, CBI, and at least to legal speakers. The question was asked during the Open Forum and general consensus was that Evacuation chairs are not always the right solution but they are a good one for the majority of ...
Comment | 9 Oct 2004
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How good are evac chairs?
Firstly we have a responsibility to ensure safe access and egress. One of the first questions asked by our clients who may have a disability is: - how will you get me out of this building in an emergency? A refuge area is not good enough. We have evacuation chairs in our buildings, and ensure enough people are trained, holidays are covered - it is part of minimising risks in an emergency and ensuring at all times the buildings are a saf...
Comment | 21 Jan 2004
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Do your fire doors meet requirements?
...but must have smoke seals/brushes. have Vision Panels (VP) provided, except where there is a need for privacy (i.e. WCs or sleeping accommodation) or specific need (e.g. Dark Rooms). All doors on circulation routes or corridors, stair enclosures MUST have Vision Panels that should comply with Disability Access requirements as well as being fire resisting where necessary. In addition to Intumescent strips, which are standard on new fire doors and form part of the upgrading of older fire doors, certain doors MUST be fitted with ‘Cold Smoke Seals or Brushes’. In general, all fire doors le...
News | 6 Jan 2006
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The sex issue
...ding the Avon and Somerset Police force's recruitment policy, Paul Quain looks into the issue of positive discrimination. 17 Access v. egress: the 18 inclusive environment dilemma HIV discrimination 20 Mark Hillier looks at the difficulties and questions raised by providing disabled access. The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 placed new responsibilities on employers to prevent HIV and AIDS related discrimination in the workplace. Katy Brown asks: are you doing enough? LEGAL UPDATE Case law 24 Legal experts offer employers their advice on recent case law Clinic 31 Is it an employer's responsibil...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2006
