PROPOSED VOLUNTARY TOOL · PMR

Portable Mobility Record

The Portable Non-Standard Mobility Aid Record preserves scoped functional facts and prior decisions without becoming a universal credential.

Terminology

Why not “certification”?

“Certification” can imply an authority, permit, or legal status that does not exist. The formal term is Portable Non-Standard Mobility Aid Record; the public-facing term is Portable Mobility Record; the short name is PMR.

The PMR is a proposed voluntary tool. It is not a permit, not a diagnosis card, not a universal authorization, not a legal entitlement, and not a prerequisite for accommodation.

Record model

Preserve what was actually evaluated.

Portable record model

FunctionDeviceProficiencyEvaluated EnvironmentConditionsProvenanceReusable Scoped Record

Text equivalent: the record summarizes functional purpose, device/adaptation, proficiency basis, evaluated setting, conditions, and provenance references as a reusable—but always scoped—decision record.

Mobility function and device/adaptation
Proficiency status and basis
Evaluated environments, operating conditions, and restrictions
Supporting-evidence references and prior scoped decisions
Issuer/reviewer, date, scope, and reassessment triggers
Privacy and consent controls

Privacy principle

Minimum necessary functional information.

Prefer functional fact, decision, condition, scope, and provenance reference over diagnosis, full medical history, raw medical record, raw wearable data, or sensor history. The PMR should not ordinarily contain raw medical or wearable records; supporting records remain separately controlled.

Bounded reassessment

Do not restart from zero when material facts have not changed.

Reassessment loop

Material change?No → retain prior decision

Material change?Yes → bounded reassessment of changed facts

Text equivalent: reassess only after material device or functional change, a materially different environment or hazard, material new safety evidence, documented condition violation, or a stated setting-specific expiration reason.

Review after a decision

Document reasons and an available route.

Where a request is denied or conditioned, the proposed standard calls for the specific reason, evidence relied upon, mitigation considered, remaining unresolved risk, scope, duration, and any available internal review route. This is proposed institutional good practice; it does not create a legal appeal right where none exists.