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Canada Standard
29-05-2025
- General
- Canada Standard
Accessibility Standards Canada releases new standard to help build adaptable homes that work for everyone
Canada News Centre 29 May 2025, 20:30 GMT+10 May 29, 2025 Gatineau, Quebec Accessibility Standards Canada Accessibility Standards Canada is pleased to announce today the publication of the CAN/ASC-2.8:2025 - Accessible-Ready Housing standard. This new equity-based standard intends to help ensure homes are designed for adaptability, and ready to be accessible. The standard provides practical accessible-ready design requirements - making it easier to meet people's needs and reduce barriers over time. It covers everything from entrances, kitchens, bathrooms, and stairs, to parking, and emergency features. It helps to prevent barriers before they exist by building flexible features into the design of homes. For instance: reinforced walls for future lifts or grab bars clear doorways and paths of travel for mobility devices reachable or easily modified operating controls, like thermostats Accessible-ready housing allows people to adapt their homes to changing needs - whether it's aging in place or accommodating a disability. Designing with accessibility from the start leads to smarter, more cost-effective housing and solutions. CAN/ASC 2.8, Accessible-Ready Housing has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). This recognition means that the standard meets SCC's rigorous standards development requirements. This includes a full public review and alignment with international best practices. The standard was developed by an Accessibility Standards Canada technical committee. The committee is made up primarily of people with disabilities and members of equity-deserving groups. This reflects the organization's equity-based approach and its commitment to developing accessibility standards that create meaningful, lasting change for Canadians.
Canada Standard
29-05-2025
- Business
- Canada Standard
Accessibility Standards Canada publishes revised standard on accessible employment
Canada News Centre 29 May 2025, 20:30 GMT+10 May 29, 2025 Gatineau, Quebec Accessibility Standards Canada Accessibility Standards Canada is pleased to announce today the publication of the revised CAN/ASC-1.1:2024 (REV-2025)-Employment standard. First released in December of 2024, this revised edition includes important updates. These revisions will help create a work environment that is equitable, accessible, and inclusive for all workers, including persons with disabilities. The revised standard introduces new requirements for removing and preventing employment-related accessibility barriers. This includes how organizations can improve accessibility in the workplace. It also clarifies existing requirements to help organizations better support workers with disabilities. The revisions to the standard include: updated language for several clauses a section on culture, engagement, and education, which gives requirements to foster inclusive, respectful and positive workplace cultures and environments a section on accessibility support systems, which provides organizations with requirements to meet the individual needs of employees three informative annexes that give background to the standard, context on lived experience with disability, and practical guidance for integration into existing policies The standard helps organizations identify, remove, and prevent barriers at every stage of employment. It gives them the tools to create equitable and inclusive workplaces that include the skills and talents of employees with disabilities. This revised edition was shaped through collaboration with people with disabilities and lived experience, technical experts, accessibility experts and other partners. It reflects Accessibility Standards Canada's equity-based approach and commitment to developing world-class, accessibility standards.
