Submissions: Published response
What is your organisation’s name? - Organisation name
What best describes you? - Interest in making a submission
How familiar are you with the Disability (Access to Premises – Building) Standards 2010? - How familiar are you with the Disability (Access to Premises – Building) Standards 2010?
What has been your experience of access to and within public buildings? - Put your answer in the box
I am a Paralympic classifier and Powerchair coach. In addition I was employed by 10 south west shires to review their buildings when the standards were initially being enforced.
The main issues in public buildings are toilets. All good for tiny people, no good for the many adults in big powered and non powered chairs
What do you think the Premises Standards Review should focus on? - Put your answer in the box
Proper, face to face, training for staff. Online is cheap, but it does not change attitudes.
Ceiling hoists to enable longevity of staff.
Adult changing rooms
If you have a problem with access to public buildings do you know what options there are to make a complaint? - Put your answer in the box
Yes, but I am able bodied and have the ability to write well. Most of the adults that require adult changing rooms I have met have been well and truly conditioned not to complain. Either by the agency members they work with, or through loss of rights due to changes incurred
What has been your experience of complying with the Premises Standards via the National Construction Code? - Put your answer in the box
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Where do you see opportunities for improvements in the Premises Standards? - Put your answer in the box
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Do you have any general comments? - Put your comments in the box
Western Australia Powerchair football enabled one recreation centre to get one adult changeroom. Unfortunately for the Loftus centre these grants were given to a politicians friends rather than to the worthy. The idea was to have more as one game involves at least a dozen people in powerchairs. Every recreation centre should have them if inclusion is really going to happen. Every public building that attracts many adults should have more than one. It is like hanging indigenous pictures. A great big shout out that says please join us.
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