VRDP03200 | ‘Designed solely’ equipment: intention of the manufacturer or designer

Design refers to:

• what the manufacturer originally set out to achieve.

It does not mean:

• ‘destined for’; or

• ‘intended for’

people with disabilities.

You will be able to decide if the manufacturer set out to design something solely for disabled people by looking at documents which originated at a very early stage of the design process, such as

• design specifications,

• patent applications; and

• documents commissioning clinical trials or reporting on their outcome.