Access for the disabled - it's the law.
Management Quarterly › Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, September 1991
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) requires new and remodeled public accommodations and commercial buildings to be 'accessible and usable' to the physically or mentally handicapped. Existing buildings need to be audited in order to identify architectural barriers that have to be removed if it can be done easily and cost-effectively. Compliance with the ADA not only makes for good public relations, it can also help organizations avoid costly civil suits.See the full content of this document
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Access for the disabled - it's the law.
There is probably no entity in the community more visible than the rural electric cooperative. It seems that everything we do speaks loudly of who we are and what we are about. The public is constantly aware of the employees, the trucks, the board and how well they seem to be utilizing member resources and representing the cooperative. A more silent speaker as to our cooperative mission, however, is our facilities -- our buildings, warehouses and the other inanimate but important symbols of our corporate persona. And recently there have been so...
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