About the DDA

The DDA has been designed to give disabled people new rights in employment, and access to goods, facilities and services.

The act applies to all organizations that provide goods, facilities and services to the public, weather paid or for free, irrespective of the size of premises or number of employees.

Since 1st October 2004 all employers have certain duties to ensure that disabled people are not discriminated against. One of the duties is to ensure that disabled people are not treated less favorably than others for any reason relating to their disability unless this can be justified.

Service providers are required to make various alterations to enable disabled people to access and use service as easily as everyone else. Such alterations could be improvements to the physical structure of buildings, adapting interiors, removing physical barriers and providing an alternative easily accessible service.

The law applies to all services providers – individuals can now take legal steps against organizations that discriminate, additionally the disabled rights commission itself may choose to take legal action in extreme cases of discrimination.

Power security installations can offer you solutions that are designed to address the requirements of the DDA