Unless you are disabled or know someone who is, you may never think about the difficulties experienced by those with impaired mobility should they need to evacuate a building because of fire, bomb alert or similar.

One could reason that the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act should serve to highlight the issue since premises must now make it easier for disabled persons to gain access. The corollary is that those who enter a building must also be able to get out – possibly needing to make a quick, unplanned exit. (more…)