Hi All!

 

Please could I gauge the opinion of all on the list, who wish to reply to the following question below.

 

As I’m totally blind, it makes no difference to me whatsoever, but I’ve been asked to canvas some expert opinion and thought that here would be a good platform to do so.

 

Many Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Chris Cook.

 

The value of highlighting the stair nosing on stairs is obviously well known and to varying degrees of success this is a fairly standard improvement that should now be the norm on new external stairs and increasingly is being undertaken retrospectively on older stairs.

In most cases the stair nosings will end up all one colour ( although which colour can depend on the step itself), but on transport , particularly rail, they can end up with most of the steps having a white nosing whilst the top and bottom steps are just in yellow. This is supposedly so you can identify where either the top or bottom or intermediate landings are when looking at the steps. However , this subtlety is often lost on most people and in fact the different colour can cause confusion for people particularly where their sight is more limited and so having made their way down a flight of stairs looking at each stair nosing in turn they can get to the bottom one and think they have arrived at the bottom and then actually miss the last step.   

However what do you think, keep them all the same colour or have the top and bottom step in different colours, what do you think works best?

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