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Posted By Tony McIntosh
Morning all,
I would welcome thoughts on the following:
To improve pedestrian safety in a busy port, staff have suggested the demarcation of a pedestrian walkway throughout. However, in sections the pedestrian walkway would run over raised platforms requiring the use of stairs up and down.
First question is: is there any danger of running into disability discrimination issues?
Second question: railings must be installed at the side of the raised platform to provide edge protection. what rulings are there that stipulate what can / can't be used? It has been suggested that steel posts with high tensile chain link connecting each can be used. The height is 1.86m. Personally i'm not in favour of using chain link as rigid hand rails provide much better protection.
Appreciate your thoughts
thank you
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Posted By FAH
Hi Tony
I can't believe I'm doing this at this time of the morning!
First - what sort of pedestrians are we considering? The public or staff? The reason for that question is to differentiate between known disability & existing controls [staff] or unknown, unquantifiable disability [public].
Second - I would suggest that you use Schedule 1 to the W@H Regs as the primary reference for determining the type of protection required for the raised platforms.
Frank Hallett
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
There are definite disabled access issues if you do take this route whether it is public or employee. Take some advice over this.
Bob
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Posted By Tony McIntosh
I thought there might be.
It would be for private use mainly FLT drivers and warehouse staff but the port is regularly used by contractors, port authority company clerks etc.
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