Festive Fun health and safety quiz (quick to do - just yes/no answers)
Q) is it a good thing we have a programme of rolling out defibrillators across schools, venues and workplaces so that we have a timely and best chance of surviving if we collapse?
Q) is it important that the place where most people rush to when they feel ill is safe?
Q) and in a non-domestic situation that would often be the toilet cubicle?
Q) so is it important that you would be found as quickly as possible in the toilet cubicle if you collapsed?
Q) so if toilets were all enclosed in full height ceiling-to-floor rooms that were resistant to the passage of sound (the mixed sex design), do you agree that could lead to delays finding someone who had collapsed?
Q) so if we get rid of all the single sex designs that have door gaps to make them inclusive of gender, would that mean everyone was more at risk at their most vulnerable?
Q) and would those ambulant people with invisible disabilities (collapsible conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, heart conditions, POTS) be as safe in the workplace if only enclosed toilets were available?
Q) and would women and children who were led or pushed back into a toilet room be less likely to be rescued in time if there was no knowledge of what was going on in the toilet room?
Q) so would single sex toilet cubicles that were in single sex environment (the only designs the Health and Safety Executive say could have door gaps) also be a preventative measure for sexual assaults on women and children?
The 15cm floor-door and floor-partition gaps and space above toilet doors and partitions were standard in building literature at the time of the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. That’s why any mixed sex toilets had to be enclosed and in a separate room. Mixed sex toilets were never meant to be normal provision. They don’t work for health and safety reasons.