Posted By Nick House Hi Martin The ACoP to regs 20 and 21 of the Workplace Regs states: "Special provision should be made if necessary for any worker with a disability to have access to facilities which are suitable for his or her use." It goes on to say that the facilities do not necessarily need to be in the workplace, but should (if possible) be within the building. Hope this helps. Regards Nick.

Posted By Ken Taylor To summarise; you need to do what's needed to meet the H&S Regulation and what's reasonable to meet the DDA. We have, in some cases, knocked two ordinary toilets into one to form a toilet for disabled persons.

Posted By John Webster If you do not provide services/access to the public, and if you have no disabled employees then you do not need disabled toilets. However, when you recruit, the DDA requires that you select the best person for the job, irrespective of disability. Only then do you discuss the successful applicant's disability and determine what adjustments to the work and workplace are necessary to accommodate them. Only if the necessary adjustments are unreasonable can you then turn them down. BUT - you must be prepared to demonstrate unreasonableness to the Tribunal, eg the cost would have a serious detrimental effect on the profitability/future viability of the organisation or severely limit the services it is intended to deliver etc. So at least have plans ready for how you could provide for employees with various disabilities. With respect to toilets, in small workplaces with, say one male and one female loo next to each other, the solution is often just to knock them together to make one all purpose loo. To quash a common misconception, there is NO requirement for seperate male, female and disabled toilets provided they are for one person at a time and lockable from inside.