ISO 22015 is an international standard that focuses on packaging with accessible design for handling and manipulation. ISO 22015 provides requirements and recommendations in designing consumer packages, independent of material, to increase accessibility about handling and manipulation. ISO 22015 considers packaging needs from a wide range of users with diverse human abilities and needs 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.
ISO 22015 focuses on physical handling and manipulation which necessarily includes the processes of opening and closing specifically detailed in ISO 17480. ISO 22015 applies to re-closable and non-reclosable consumer packaging without using any other mechanical means.
ISO 22015 on packaging with accessible design for handling and manipulation is useful for:
While packages have become used to a wide user range, including older people and people with disabilities, some users have difficulties with handling and manipulating packages. This includes holding, lifting, carrying, and grasping packages. These difficulties can be due to a heavyweight or a large size which is hard to lift or grasp for people with reduced physical abilities because of age or physical impairments.
These problems are addressed by ISO 22015. It can be solved with urgent attention for consumer packages to be used widely by users who have weakened or limited physical abilities.
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