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Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M
Accessibility guidance for dwellings and buildings other than dwellings. The linked PDF is Volume 2.
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INDEX
Smoke detectors 3.10 Surfaces – blister 1.13
Social facilities 4.1 Surfaces – corduroy hazard warning 1.33
Society for the Protection of Ancient Surfaces – finishes 4.32, 4.35 note
Buildings 0.19
Surfaces – hazard warning 1.13, 1.33, 3.50
Socket outlets 4.25–4.30
Surfaces – lifting devices 3.32, 3.42
Sound field systems, see Communication aids
Surfaces – materials 4.32
Spectator events 4.2, 4.11, 4.36
Surfaces – parking bays 1.15, 1.18
Spectator facilities 4.5, 4.12
Surfaces – reception area floors 3.6
Spectator seating 0.14, 4.2, 4.5–4.8, 4.12
Surfaces – sanitary accommodation 5.4,
Sport England 2.13, 4.11, 5.6 note, 5.18 note, 5.21 note
5.17 note
Surfaces – slip-resistant floors 3.6, 3.14,
Sports facilities 2.13, 4.5, 4.11, 5.6 note, 5.18, 5.21
5.16–5.18
Surfaces – tactile paving 1.13, 1.33
Sports facilities – changing rooms
Swing doors, see Doors
5.16–5.18
Swing-free closing devices, see Doors
Sports facilities – doors 2.13
Switches 4.25–4.30
Sports facilities – showers 5.16–5.18
Symbols 4.36
Sports facilities – spectators 4.11
Sports facilities – stadia 4.11 T
Sports facilities – toilets 5.6 note Tactile paving, see Surfaces
Stages, see also Rostrums 4.12 Tactile signs 4.35 note
Stairs, see also Goings, Rises and Taps, see Sanitary accommodation
Steps 1.33, 3.19, 3.50–3.51
Telephone systems, see Communication aids
Stairs – hazard warning surfaces 1.33, 3.50
Telephones 4.14
Stairs – internal 3.19, 3.50–3.51
Terraces 4.14
Stepped terraced floors 4.12
Terraces – auditoria 4.12
Steps, see also Goings, Rises and Stairs
Text telephones, see Communication aids
Steps – approach routes 1.21, 1.27–1.37
Theatres 4.10, 4.12, 4.35–4.36
Steps – internal stairs 3.51
Thresholds, see Entrance doors –
Steps – school buildings 1.33 note thresholds
Storeys – accessibility 0.14 Toilets, see Sanitary accommodation
Student accommodation 0.16 Touch plates 4.29
Student accommodation – bedrooms
U
4.4, 4.17–4.24
Uplighters 4.34
Support rails, see Sanitary accommodation
– grab rails
V
Surfaces, see also Floor surfaces, Wall
Vertical circulation 3.1, 3.17–3.55
surfaces 4.32
Vertical lifting platforms, see Lifting devices
Surfaces – approaches 1.9, 1.13, 1.26,
1.33 Vision panels 3.10
Approved Document M Volume 2 Access to and use of buildings other than dwellings
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