It is totally more or less that the DDA (Disability Discrimination lawsuit UK) does not appear to have addressed the areas of safe refuge in multi storey buildings for people later than Learning Difficulties, should it be expectable to escort a LD person to such an place and then expect them to wait patiently until support arrives? OK we would hope or even expect that nobody would be left unaided in such a thing but it should be recall that in an emergency, activity or death situation many people think forlorn of their own safety. A unhappy but authentic fact. In fact, anecdotal evidence suggests that disabled people are often forgotten during emergency evacuation.
As a wheelchair user I fully inherit that we should be nimble to have permission to most reasonable public buildings, however as an right of entry auditor I character if we cant acquire out of the building safely, we should not be going in it, at least not until those answerable have addressed all issues including egress.
My advice to all people subsequently entering a building, is: think more or less how you (Or the person when you) will acquire out in an emergency as well as how you will get in.
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