The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 covers millions of businesses all over the UK. It applies to every building or area where the public are offered goods, facilities or services or access to premises.  It expects suppliers to identify any barriers and, where reasonable, remove them. If you are concerned with the design or operation of your building or business or are a supplier of goods, facilities or services and want to keep on the right side of the law you should be able to show that you are planning to identify unreasonable barriers and deal with them by having an access audit undertaken.   What Is An Access Audit

Because most barriers can be easily and inexpensively removed it is vital to clearly establish low cost and reasonable initiatives that avoid unnecessary expenditure on extravagant provisions. In recent research by the Disability Rights Commission it was found that despite one in ten businesses stating that they would prefer not to have to make their premises accessible for disabled people, eight out of ten predicted a positive rise in profits after improving access for disabled people. Businesses need to know that reasonable adjustments are all that is required by the DDA. Your access audit will take into account your business turn- over and make suggestions that are reasonable to you and your business.