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Steelworx Stainless Steel Door Hardware

Hardware Catalogue | Door Levers and Pull Handles | Steelworx Stainless Steel Door Hardware

Heavy Duty Tubular Architectural Levers - Unsprung

Heavy Duty Cast Architectural Levers - Unsprung

Light Domestic Duty Door Levers - Sprung Roses

Cast Stainless Steel Door Handles and Pulls

Round Bar Stainless Steel Door Handles and Pulls

Disability and Discrimination
The DDA states that you must not treat disabled customers unfairly, no matter what size your company is.

There are lots of things you can do. Some changes donÆt cost very much, such as providing a seat for people who have mobility impairments and cannot stand for very long. If you are unsure how you can assist a disabled person, you could consider asking them what you can do to help.

If you canÆt make adjustments like these to your service for a disabled person, you must consider whether there are other ways of providing an equivalent service, such as home delivery, where this is reasonable.

New provisions
The DDA 2005 addresses the limitations of current legislation by extending disabled people's rights in respect of premises that are let or to be let, and commonhold premises.

Reasonable adjustments
From 4 December 2006, landlords and managers of let premises and premises that are to let will be required to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. Under the new duties, provided certain conditions are met (for example, that a request has been made), landlords and managers of premises which are to let, or of premises which have already been let, must make reasonable adjustments, and a failure to do so will be unlawful unless it can be justified under the Act. They might need to alter their policies, practices or procedures;
Provide auxiliary aids or services;
or change the terms of a letting (but only in respect of premises that have already been let).

For example a landlord may have to, where reasonable,
ò use the Typetalk service when communicating with a profoundly deaf
person where he would usually telephone other tenants
ò put correspondence in large print for a visually impaired tenant, or
ò allow a disabled tenant to use her balcony to dry clothes where she cannot access the drying area of her block of flats because of her disability.
Landlords will only have to make reasonable adjustments. And they will not have to remove or alter physical features of the premises. Regulations (SI 2006/887) set out things which are, and things which are not, to be treated as a physical feature. For example, features arising from the design or construction of the premises are to be treated as a physical feature. But things like furniture and furnishings are not to be treated as a physical feature. In addition certain things such as the replacement of taps and door handles are not to be treated as an alteration of a physical feature, and in certain
circumstances these things may need to be provided by the landlord or manager as an auxiliary aid or service.
For example, a landlord would not be required to replace a door for a disabled tenant, if the tenant had difficulty opening it, however, it might be reasonable for the landlord to replace the door handle with a more usable one if that would mean the tenant could open the door.
These new duties of reasonable adjustment will not apply, however, to
ò prospective lettings where landlords let their only or principal home and do not use the services of an estate agent to arrange the letting;
or
ò a letting where the landlord lets their only or principal home and does not use a professional management agent to manage the letting; or
ò certain small dwellings, for example, where a landlord or manager lives on the premises and there is not normally residential accommodation on the premises for more than six persons.
There is no discrimination where a landlordÆs failure to comply with the duty can be justified under the Act.
Commonhold
The duty of less favourable treatment and reasonable adjustment will also apply to commonhold. This is a new system of freehold ownership for blocks of flats, shops, offices and other multiple occupation premises in England and Wales. A commonhold is made up of individual freehold properties which are known as commonhold units.

Hardware Catalogue | Door Levers and Pull Handles | Steelworx Stainless Steel Door Hardware

Product Stock Codes



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A guide to product finish codes used throughout the store

BA	Black Antique
EB	Electro Brass
FB	Florentine Bronze
GAA	Gold Aluminium
NP	Nickel Plate
PAA	Polished Aluminium
PB	Polished Brass
PCB	Powder Coat Black
PCP	Polished Chrome Plate
PCW	Powder Coat White
PNP	Polished Nickel Plate
PVD	Stainless Brass
SAA	Satin/Silver Aluminium
SB	Satin Brass
SBPB	Satin/Polished Brass
SCCP	Satin/Polished Chrome
SCOL	Self Coloured Brass
SCP	Satin Chrome Plate
SNP	Satin Nickel Plate
SSS	Satin Stainless Steel

A C Sissling (Specialist Ironmongers) Limited, 20 Fitzwilliam Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD4 7BL
Company Registered in England and Wales #3606438

DDA approved door hardware. Stainless steel door furniture and door hardware compliant with disability and discrimination act, door handles for disabled users