New UTS research “lifts the lid” on how wheelchair users access public bathrooms

Carnemolla, P; Darcy, S; Almond, B; Madon, F; Relf, M

New UTS research “lifts the lid” on how wheelchair users access public bathrooms

Carnemolla, P Darcy, S

Almond, B Madon, F Relf, M

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Publisher:: Association of Consultants in Access of Australia
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Access Insight - The Magazine for the Association of Consultants in Access Australia, 2023, 2023/2024, (Summer), pp. 8-13
Issue Date:: 2023-12-03

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dc.contributor.author	Carnemolla, P
dc.contributor.author	Darcy, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5394-2566
dc.contributor.author	Almond, B
dc.contributor.author	Madon, F
dc.contributor.author	Relf, M
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-02T11:08:38Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-01
dc.date.available	2024-04-02T11:08:38Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12-03
dc.identifier.citation	Access Insight - The Magazine for the Association of Consultants in Access Australia, 2023, 2023/2024, (Summer), pp. 8-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/177441
dc.description.abstract	Public bathrooms are important places. The provision of accessible public bathrooms helps to ensure health, wellbeing and equitable access to our cities, public spaces, and communities. However, the real risk of falling off the toilet pan while reaching for toilet paper and avoiding public bathrooms altogether are two preliminary findings from a new research project “An Inclusive and Embodied Approach to Accessible Bathroom Design for Powered and Manual Wheelchair Users” by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Disability Research Network and industry collaborators Farah Madon & Mark Relf in partnership with Spinal Cord Injury Australia and Physical Disability Council NSW. The new project explores how accessible bathrooms are used by wheelchair users (both manual and power chair). It also looks at the effects of the Australian Design for Access and Mobility design code (AS1428:1) on public bathroom design. The design code takes a prescriptive approach to public bathroom design while making many assumptions about how wheelchair users access the toilets including how they use, approach and transfer onto the toilet pan. Most often, wheelchair users are considered as a single homogenous user group.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Association of Consultants in Access of Australia
dc.relation	University of Technology Sydney
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dc.title	New UTS research “lifts the lid” on how wheelchair users access public bathrooms
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

Public bathrooms are important places. The provision of accessible public bathrooms helps to ensure health, wellbeing and equitable access to our cities, public spaces, and communities. However, the real risk of falling off the toilet pan while reaching for toilet paper and avoiding public bathrooms altogether are two preliminary findings from a new research project “An Inclusive and Embodied Approach to Accessible Bathroom Design for Powered and Manual Wheelchair Users” by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Disability Research Network and industry collaborators Farah Madon & Mark Relf in partnership with Spinal Cord Injury Australia and Physical Disability Council NSW. The new project explores how accessible bathrooms are used by wheelchair users (both manual and power chair). It also looks at the effects of the Australian Design for Access and Mobility design code (AS1428:1) on public bathroom design. The design code takes a prescriptive approach to public bathroom design while making many assumptions about how wheelchair users access the toilets including how they use, approach and transfer onto the toilet pan. Most often, wheelchair users are considered as a single homogenous user group.

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