{"id":22803,"date":"2023-02-08T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handicap-acces.mentalworks.click\/advice-sheets\/accessibility-of-water-sports-centres-for-the-disabled-and-prms\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T00:56:55","slug":"accessibility-of-water-sports-centres-for-the-disabled-and-prms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.handicap-acces.com\/en\/advice-sheets\/accessibility-of-water-sports-centres-for-the-disabled-and-prms\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility of water sports centres for the disabled and PRMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Accessibility of water sports centres for people with disabilities or reduced mobility: the main principles<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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All establishments open to the public (ERP) are required to comply with current legislation on the accessibility of their premises for disabled people or PRMs (People with Reduced Mobility). The establishments concerned are: public swimming pools, aquatic leisure centres, museums, theatres, cinemas, shops, restaurants, educational establishments (nursery schools, secondary schools, universities), sports, religious and health establishments, specialised aquatic rehabilitation centres, administrations, hotels and railway stations, balneotherapy centres, water sports centres, etc. The law requires special facilities for disabled people and those with reduced mobility, including signposting to make it easier to get around and park, and improved signage and lighting within establishments. This advice sheet sets out the main principles to be borne in mind and applied in terms of accessibility for water sports facilities. In this respect, the owners and managers of water sports facilities need to think about how to ensure that these areas are accessible to people with reduced mobility. <\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What does the law say about the accessibility of water sports facilities in France?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Law 2005-102 of 11 February 2005<\/strong> on equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship for people with disabilities aims to make education, employment, training, culture, sport and leisure accessible to the whole population. It thus establishes a general principle of universal accessibility<\/strong> to everything and for everyone, whatever the type of disability. According to this law, the architectural provisions of establishments open to the public<\/strong> must be such that these premises are accessible to all, whatever the type of disability<\/strong>, particularly physical, sensory, cognitive, mental or psychological. As establishments open to the public (ERP), sports facilities are directly affected by these provisions.<\/p>\n

As far as watersports centres<\/strong> are concerned, there are a number of difficulties in interpreting and\/or applying this law. Those according to which nautical bases are both places that can house installations open to the public (IOP)<\/strong> such as the platforms of a the marina<\/strong>, but also enclosed premises such as the harbourmaster’s office<\/strong> or the first-aid post<\/strong>, which have the status of establishments receiving the public (ERP), and beaches<\/strong> or floating pontoons<\/strong>, which cannot be considered as either an ERP or an IOP.<\/p>\n

The difficulty is that beaches and floating pontoons do not take account of the obligations laid down by law. This makes it more difficult to interpret and apply the law in the specific case of watersports centres. This raises the question of how the law should be interpreted in this situation. <\/p>\n

The first step will be to identify and recognise which areas of a water sports centre belong to the ERP and IOP categories, and which do not. This identification involves recognising the characteristics that define each place.<\/p>\n

To this end, the managers and owners of the water sports centres must categorise their activities in each of the three locations:<\/p>\n