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Commercial Kitchens and BCA / Premises Standards Clause D3.4

Commercial Kitchens and BCA / Premises Standards Clause D3.4

Commercial kitchens are fast-moving, dynamic workplaces. Things move quickly and happen as fast as possible.

Staff are preparing food, cooking, washing dishes, cleaning surfaces and floors, receiving deliveries, loading and unloading items from coolrooms and refrigerators and on and on it goes – needless to say, a lot of different activities are undertaken by people working in such an environment.

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Luminance Contrast of Doorways: Do you See it? You Should

Luminance Contrast of Doorways: Do you See it? You Should

Doors need to be visible for two main reasons:

So we can find them; and

So we can safely move through them.

The Building Code of Australia (part of the National Construction Code) and the Premises Standards (under the DDA), both require compliance of doors under the general provisions of Table D3.1 (i.e. “to and within all areas”) and at entrances under Clause D3.2.

AS 1428.1 (2009) outlines two…

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