Simplified Compliance with Inclusivity

Published by Angela May for AFPR in Local Government

SIMPLIFIED COMPLIANCE WITH NEW INCLUSIVITY REQUIREMENTS
The potential complexity of ensuring compliance with the new BS8300: 2009 Accessible Building Design standard is simplified in areas of personal hygiene through an innovative solution already in place….

Total Hygiene, the UK’s leading supplier of toileting aids for the disabled, has a unique package which not only helps comply with good practice in general disabled toilet provision in buildings, but the Standard’s more specific areas including changing rooms, accessible bedrooms and ‘Changing Places’ sanitary accommodation. As a result, specifiers can rely on one, established, source to provide expert advice on available/suitable equipment, room design, through to supply and installation of fittings- and future maintenance.

The Standard itself acknowledges the difficulty in trying to encompass everyone’s needs, but Total Hygiene’s range provides optimum flexibility, whether simple grab rails through height adjustable washbasins and changing tables to toilet lifters and height-adjustable automatic bidet (shower) toilets such as the Clos-o-Mat Lima Lift.

Robin Tuffley, Total Hygiene marketing manager, observes, “Toilet access and use is a marker of human rights and dignity, yet is something we all do, every day. Continence alone affects 4million people in the UK, before physical or mental impairment, whether through disease or just ageing, which impinges on the ability to toilet unaided is factored in. One could also include in our multi-cultural society, religious considerations, which can affect how a person toilets.

“However, even two people with the same condition may not share the same limitations, so designing and specifying toilet provision that is genuinely inclusive could be difficult. A specialist M&E consultant would be used for the building services, so it is logical to use a specialist in disabled toileting to help meet the new Standard…..”

Total Hygiene’s Complete Bathroom Collection, as well as CAD downloads, guidance on creating an inclusive washroom/bathroom, and full technical specification data are available on the company’s website www.clos-o-mat.com. The company has over 40 years’ experience in the manufacture of disabled toileting solutions, with over 30,000 units installed in the UK alone, in locations as diverse as individual homes through public buildings and shopping centres to narrowboats and tallships!
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For further information:
Angela May
AFPR
4 Ashbrook Close
Hesketh Bank
Lancs PR4 6LZ
Tel/ fax: 01772 813600
e-mail: afpr@btconnect.com
Clos-o-Mat telephone number for publication: 0161 969 1199/ freefone 0800 374076; e: info@clos-o-mat.com