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Step 4: Choose the Accommodation
Gripping or Pinching Tools or Objects
People have limitations that result in difficulty gripping or pinching objects. Accommodations may involve the office, industrial, service, and medical industries, and accommodations can extend to personal needs. Options include:
Office
- Providing alternative telephone access: auto-dialers, gooseneck telephone holders, hands-free telephones, shoulder rests for telephone handsets, and computer-telephone integration
- Offering filing modifications such as modified filing trays, Lazy-Susan carrousels, and automated filing systems
- Providing grip aids such as reachers and door knob grips
- Providing page turners and book holders
Industrial
- Providing ergonomic tools and other adaptations such as power tools instead of handtools; tools that can be used in either hand; tools without single finger activation; tools that have pistol shaped handles for power grips
- Reducing palm stress by providing tool wraps to pad long handles
- Providing newer tools with access to tool balancers/positioners
Service
- Providing ergonomic knives and food service equipment
- Using money counters and bill handlers
- Using ergonomic and spring-loaded scissors
- Providing cake decorating syringes that use plungers
- Using ergonomic mop buckets and mops
- Providing adjustable carts (e.g., motorized, multi-purpose) and compact lifting devices
Personal
- Obtaining independent living aids
Medical
- Using large handles and other adaptations for microscopy work: PC scopes, pipettes, and test tube holders
- Using ergonomic dental and surgical instruments
