Are Your Business Premises User-Friendly?

Ensuring that your business premises have reasonable access is not just practical but also the subject of fairly recent laws;   the Equality Act 2010 provides guidelines for ensuring that organisations take positive steps to enable disabled access, via reasonable adjustment, to their premises in the interests of equality.

For the modern business, it obviously makes total sense to make sure that all of your business premises are as accessible as possible for everyone, not only to benefit your potential customer or client but also for all of your staff.  After all, a difficult building access can affect many different many people, not just wheelchair users.  For practical purposes, it’s important to consider ease of access for people with prams or pushchairs, those who are carrying goods and those with mobility issues. 

Obviously, there are several things to consider with regard to access but the type of doors which are fitted can have a huge impact on how easy it is to enter or leave a building.  A great solution for offices, shops and a whole host of business premises could be to fit automatic door openers which will enable straightforward access for everyone…

The benefits of automatic door openers include:

1. Automatic door openers are ideal where access to a building should be made to be as user-friendly as possible.
2. They can be fitted to many different types of existing doors without costly adaptation to the actual fabric of the building.
3. They work from both directions making them suitable for both entering and leaving a building.
4. Existing doors can remain aesthetically pleasing, whether modern or traditional in design.
5. They can be installed on both single and double doors which allows for a wider access point.
6. They cannot continually blow open in the wind.
7. When installed and maintained correctly they will last for years.
8. Doors which close automatically, after every use, cut down on heat loss thereby offering savings on utility bills.
9. From a safety point of view they will:

•        Ensure that wheelchairs and prams/pushchairs have safe passage.
•        Allow anyone lacking speed to enter without risk of being trapped or hit by a swinging door.
•        Avoid trapped fingers for any age group, but particularly smaller children.

10. From a security perspective, they can be locked securely during non-operational periods.

How do they operate? 

There are multiple ways in which an automatic door opener can be activated which make them ideal for pretty much any situation.  Here is a list of a few methods:

•        Motion Detectors
•        Optical sensors.
•        Sensor mats
•        Push Buttons
•        Keypads
•        Remote Control

So as you can see, fitting automatic door openers is a straightforward way to make your business premises as easily accessible as possible with minimal cost or hassle; they allow access to clients or customers with limited mobility whilst also ensuring that anyone burdened manually can enter freely. 

Ultimately, fitting automatic door openers can be the most cost-effective method for ensuring that your business complies with current regulations regarding accessibility without making any significant alterations to your existing building.