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This document provides requirements and recommendations in designing consumer packages,independent of material, to increase accessibility with regard to handling and manipulation. Thedocument considers packaging needs from a wide range of users with diverse human abilities andneeds in diverse contexts of use.

Handling and manipulation include human physical abilities like holding, lifting, carrying, pulling,pushing, sliding, grasping, twisting, tearing and any combination of those actions related to portability,opening, re-closing and taking out contents of packages as well as to storage and disposal. Requirementsand recommendations with regard to those abilities are provided for people with special needsincluding older people and people with disabilities in their handling and manipulation of packages. Thisdocument focuses on physical handling and manipulation which necessarily includes the processesof opening and closing specifically detailed in ISO 17480. It applies to reclosable and non-reclosableconsumer packaging without using any other mechanical means.

Cross References:
ISO 21067-1
ISO 17480
ISO 11156
ISO 8317
ISO/IEC Guide 71:2014
ISO/TR 22411
ISO 20282-1


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Published: 07/22/2019 ISBN(s): 9780580974380 Number of Pages: 34 File Size: 1 file , 4.7 MB Same As: ISO 22015:2019 Product Code(s): 30355953, 30355953, 30355953 Note: This product is unavailable in United Kingdom