Any kind of business premises or public location may attract a wide range of people. This necessitates the property owner to take all required precautions to ensure that visitors coming to the area can freely move, without the danger of falling or slipping.
Besides, there are many other standards that all kinds of business facilities must strictly adhere to during the time of construction. Tactiles, which are available with Olejar, is one kind of safety measure that every owner should consider installing among the other preventative measures.
What a tactile indicator is?
Tactile indicators can be one of the many safety flooring solutions that needs to be put in place where there is a lot of foot traffic, such as public properties and pedestrian zones, according to industry standards.
The goal of utilising a tactile indicator is to provide a tactile surface on various public pathways and also access routes so that individuals may feel them under their foot or with a symbol cane and will be warned to the presence of a stairs or an coming up pedestrian danger.
This is especially beneficial to the blind, and it also adds to the standard safety precautions for all pedestrians.
Installation guidelines
Contractors installing these tactile indicators need to follow certain basic guidelines. It is necessary that these tactile indicators must be placed always at the top part of each flight of staircase at the landings that is longer than about 2,100 mm, which does not have continuous handrails on either of the sides.
All the tactile indicators have to be present at those locations where any regular stairway pattern will be interrupted. Besides that, the tactile indicators also must comply with various colour contrast and a few other necessary code requirements.
Treads and risers
During the installation of these tactile indicators, the contractors need to install various treads and raisers near the stairways, which require various users to step quite unevenly.
Contractors need to arrange the raisers and treads in such a manner that users are able to maintain a very consistent climbing rhythm. As per the accessibility solutions providers, before installing these treads and raisers, all contractors need to follow a certain specific guideline.
- Stairs must have even riser heights and tread depths.
- Risers must have a maximum height of approximately 180 mm, and treads should be 280 mm deep.
- Also, contractors need to make sure that the risers will not be open.
- Also, treads must be always made from certain slip-resistant materials and that should extend the complete width of the tread. The entire surface must cover a minimum of half of the depth of your tread starting from the nosing.
By following all these guidelines, which are also provided on the code-compliant meant for stairs, all contractors will be in a position to install these tactile indicators by following the various code standards prescribed.
The manufacturers and all other tactile solutions providers will also make it quite easy and simple for the contractors so that they can find the right solution for installing code-compliant tactile for their various projects.
