Question

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Guide

Disabled access and facilities in business premises

Improve access and use of facilities for disabled employees

You may need to make alterations and changes to physical features to accommodate disabled employees. If the physical feature puts disabled employees at a disadvantage compared with your non-disabled employees, you must adjust it to remove or reduce its impact. These alterations are called reasonable adjustments.

Reasonable adjustments for employees

These steps could include, where reasonable, making structural or physical changes to business premises, such as:

widening doorways to allow a wheelchair to pass through easily

replacing steps with ramps

relocating light switches and door handles to a level that considers people who have difficulty in reaching

putting in place audio-visual fire alarms

providing accessible toilet facilities for disabled employees

These steps also involve allowing the person to work in a more easily accessible place, such as by:

transferring a wheelchair user's workstation from an inaccessible upper floor to the ground floor

allowing a disabled job applicant to be interviewed in an accessible room

providing specially modified equipment, such as a special keyboard adapted for someone who has arthritis, or a telephone adapted for someone with a hearing impairment