Description
An interesting incident happened yesterday concerning the handicap women's stall and the baby changing station, that is installed in that stall. One of the Bathhouse members was using the baby changing station, that is provided for member use, to change her baby at the same time a member in a wheelchair needed to use the handicap stall. The woman in the wheelchair waited but it seems this has happened before and she could not wait and her helper tried to get her into a regular stall, which are not made to hold 2 people let alone a wheelchair.
The question is, why was the changing station installed in the handicap stall instead of on the wall opposite the showers as it was in the old bathrooms. At this time we have 3 handicap women, to my knowledge, that are in wheelchairs or those walkers with seats and one man who require the use of the handicap stalls and quite of number of babies and toddles that require the changing stations.
I have been in a number of public restrooms and have never seen the baby changing station in the handicap stall, it has always been on a wall near the sinks.
It would appear that the better solution would be to move the baby changing station to the wall opposite the shower stalls.
4 Comments
Newport Public Services (Verified Official)
Acknowledged Recreation/Beach Administrator (Verified Official)
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
We will examine other locations for the wall mounted diaper changing station, but a new location would still have to meet the Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities criteria for reach range and work surfaces.
We will follow up shortly on our findings.
Closed Recreation/Beach Administrator (Verified Official)
Looking Around (Registered User)