Design For Dignity
Retail Guidelines
The Building Code of Australia (BCA) is a state based regulation and also sets out the requirement to provide safe, equitable and dignified access to buildings, and facilities and services within buildings, nationally.
The accessibility objectives are to provide, as far as is reasonable, people with safe, equitable and dignified access to a building, and the services and facilities within a building, and safeguard occupants from illness or injury while evacuating in an emergency.
The key focus is on the physical construction of the building or new additions or upgrades to an existing building. Compliance with the BCA is triggered at the application for building construction approval and has, since May 2011, formally included a number of access requirements related Australian Standards.