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Ergonomiczne wymagania stawiane pojazdom samochodowym dla osób z niepełnosprawnościami
Ergonomics requirements for personal vehicles for persons with disabilities

Author(s): Maciej Sydor, Marek Zabłocki, Marcin Butlewski
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
Keywords: persons with disabilities: adapted car: ergonomics guidelines

Summary/Abstract: Independent mobility is significant for everybody’s quality of life; it is especially important for people with disabilities. This article presents ergonomics guidelines for adapting individual cars to meet the needs of drivers with disabilities and their passengers. The solutions have been described for individual cars and for universal cars for transporting any user of a wheelchair. This article ends with a confrontation of the guidelines with the principles of ergonomics.

  • Issue Year: 553/2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 10-14
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish