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Using materials handling to help the disabled. (includes related articles on an interview with Barbara Judy, project manager of the Job Accommodation Network, about the Americans with Disabilities Act and a discussion of Steelcase Inc.'s approach to the ADA)
Modern Materials Handling, October, 1993 by Forger, Gary
Accommodating people in groups of one is at the core of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Carefully selected changes in your materials handling equipment and practices are important to making the disabled strong members of your work force.
Some new laws have an immediate and obvious impact on industry. But that isn't the case with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Instead, this law is changing manufacturing and warehousing operations one location at a time.
In the year since the ADA took effect, it is quite possible that none of your company's materials handling practices have proven to be inadequate for any of your employees. As a result, nothing has changed. Materials, work-in-process, and finished goods are handled just as they always...
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