Rules and regulations concerning four wheeled walkers and electrically powered scooters at commercial establishments

Rules and regulations concerning four wheeled walkers and electrically powered scooters at commercial establishments

Given this factor, the objective of the present research is to shed light on rules and regulations pertaining to four wheeled walkers and electrically powered scooters set forth by commercial establishments, viz. department stores and supermarkets that mainly sell food items (hereinafter “ Retail Stores") ‘ From October to November 2009, questionnaire survey was conducted by distributing the questionnaire through post 70% of the commercial establishments had the users of electrically powered scooters among their visitors, while almost all commercial establishments had the users of four wheeled walkers among their visitors. However, very few commercial establishments had put these equipments on their agenda list for discussion and study, and moreover they didn’t organize any training about these equipments Although most of the commercial establishments didn’t permit the use of these equipments , some of the establishments thought "although we do not proactively allow or encourage, if a user of electrically powered scooter visits us, we allow him to use " Reason was , there were concerned that it would cause trouble to people in surrounding area