ADA considerations part of facility adjustments for COVID-19

Changes to entrances, restrooms and office areas will need to be accessible


As facilities adjust to COVID, plans for physical changes need to consider people with disabilities and, specifically the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards for accessible design, according to an article from Building Operating Management on the FacilitiesNet website.

Hygiene and aiding people with disabilities can be accomplished with touchless architectural elements such as entrances. Automatic sensor-operated doors can address not only hygiene, but maneuvering and operation of doors. 

Other entry options can present challenges to people with disabilities. For example, wheelchairs must maneuver around swinging doors. Door hardware can present another challenge for people who have trouble grasping; ADA requires hardware that can be operated easily without requiring grasping or twisting.

Faucets, restroom dispensers, toilets, urinals, and trash cans can all benefit similarly from a touchless sensor operation, again relieving people with disabilities from potentially difficult grasping and twisting operation of the items.

Read the article.

 

 



July 17, 2020


Topic Area: Infection Control


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