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| The Equality Act came into force on 1st October 2010. The act brings together nine existing pieces of legislation relating to discrimination and inequality and combines them into a single act making it easier for businesses to understand and comply with. |
| The Equality Act 2010places duties on those providing goods, facilities or services to the public and those selling, letting or managing premises in the UK. The Act tries to end the discrimination that protected groups face by giving them rights in the areas of |
- Employment
- Education
- Access to goods, facilities and services, including larger private clubs and land based transport services
- Buying or renting land or property, including making it easier for disabled people to rent property and for tenants to make disability-related adaptations
- Functions of public bodies, for example issuing of licences
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| To comply with the law, employers, service providers and building owners now have a greater responsibility to ensure that their business premises incorporate suitable access arrangements for people with disabilities. In some cases this may involve making physical alterations to a building and may impact on the way in which particular areas are managed and used. |
| If you are intending to refurbish a building it makes good commercial sense to incorporate any alterations required to meet the disabled access standards into the refurbishment programme as it can prove more costly and disruptive to conduct remedial work at a later stage. Buildings which comply with Equality law are also more attractive to tenants and are easier to sell. |
| Strategic Risk Management is able to offer a complete Equality Act Access Audit (EAA) of your properties to ensure compliance with the regulations. These can be hosted on SRManager which provides easy access via the web, giving you complete control over all your risk management documentation via your own personalised remote login. |
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