ACCESS AWARD CRITERIA
To qualify for BRONZE AWARD
- Level, or suitably ramped, access
- Doors suitably weighted to enable ease of opening
- Minimum door opening: 800 mm
- Level access throughout ground floor
- Ground floor, adequately sized and unobstructed
- Arrangements made to enable easy access to payment facilities
To qualify for SILVER AWARD
- Wheelchair accessible toilets (where customer toilets are provided)
- Disabled persons car parking facilities (where car parking is provided)
- Lift access to upper floors
- Assistance with packing shopping
- Restaurants should provide non-fixed seating
- Staff to have undergone basic training in providing assistance to people with physical and visual impairment
To qualify for GOLD AWARD
- Low level payments counters with one facility fitted with an induction loop system
- Automatic doors on most entrances
- Low level lift buttons
- Lift buttons to have a yellow parameter strip and voice announcement with lift
- Customer information signs to have large clear print in contrasting colours to the background
- One to one assistance throughout shopping in the store
- Disability awareness training policy for staff
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