A review of ISO and CEN standards on ergonomics

✍ Scribed by J. Dul; P.M. de Vlaming; M.J. Munnik

• Book ID: 103621387
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 434 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0169-8141
• DOI: 10.1016/0169-8141(95)00068-2

✦ Synopsis

In recent years an increasing number of official ergonomic standards has become available world-wide. The International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the European standardization organization Comit6 Europ6en de Normalisation (CEN) have published 28 ergonomic standards, whereas 69 standards are in preparation. VDU-work, danger signals, and thermal stress are the best-covered areas, but also areas such as manual materials handling and mental workload are covered. The majority of the draft standards will be published within 2-3 years.

Relevance to industry

Standards in the field of ergonomics contain much ergonomic knowledge that is relevant for industry. The standards can easily be used by non-experts in industry for the design and evaluation of work places, control rooms, visual displays and so on. This paper is meant to inform potential users about the existence of nearly 100 ergonomic standards.