Welcome to the Wheelchair Standards Information website

Welcome to the home for information on the development of Wheelchair Seating and Wheelchair Transportation Safety Standards!

The information contained on this website is intended for use by working group members, manufacturers, researchers, clinicians, transporters and wheelchair users. It is limited to information on the development of standards for wheelchair transportation safety and wheelchair seating.

The site has been divided into two major categories: Wheelchair Seating (Archive) and Wheelchair Transportation Safety (Current). The site directory for each provides information on the contents and organization. The site contains information including: meeting minutes, draft standards documents, meeting announcements, application guidelines, frequently asked questions (FAQs), vendor information on published standards, and listings of reference documents. Most standards contain design and test requirements necessary for a product to meet minimum performance requirements. Files are in .pdf format and can be downloaded and then opened using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

PLEASE NOTE: The Wheelchair Seating Standards Section is no longer being updated. The site remains an archive for the wheelchair seating standards development and was last updated December 2003.

Wheelchair Seating Standards SectionWheelchair Transportation Safety Standards Section

The site supports standards development taking place under the auspices of three standards development organizations: the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America - RESNA (ANSI/RESNA); the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) SC1, working groups 6 and 11 (WG-6, WG-11); and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Restraints Task Group.

This site was developed and is maintained by:
The University of Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Wheeled Mobility and the RERC on Wheelchair Transportation Safety.
Both RERCs are sponsored by grants from the National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation (NIDRR), Washington, D.C.