Originally Posted by
bealine
As far as technology is concerned - your alert system may happen one day. t the moment, most places - airports, shopping malls etc - will provide the bare minimum required to be legally compliant. In fact, Heathrow and Gatwick spent extra in having a "kick strip" built-in. Most disabled toilets on the outside only have a pull cord alarm.
Do all former BAA airports have this facility?
This page made me think, why not have an intercom system in the toilets that's automatically activated when the alarm is so that as long as the passenger is still able to speak they can find out what the issue is. If the passenger is unable to speak it'd still get investigated as normal.
Presumably someone dying in a disable toilet must be relatively rare or they'd have these measures by now, but it would be something good to incorporate when building new facilities or refurbishing existing ones.