Resources - Standards - Introduction

The data in this section gives an overview of the standards published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) related to the field of ergonomics and human factors.

Background

In designing of production systems, economic and social goals can be combined, if ergonomics is integrated into the design process. More than 50 years of ergonomics research and practice have resulted in a large number of ergonomics standards for designing physical and organizational work environments. Here, you find the 174 international ISO and European CEN standards related to this field.

The available standards include general recommendations for integrating ergonomics into the design process, as well as specific requirements for manual handling, mental load, task design, human-computer-interaction, noise, heat, body measurements, and other topics.

The standards can be used in different phases of the design process: allocation of system functions between humans and machines, design of the work organization, work tasks and jobs, design of work environment, design of work equipment, hardware and software, and design of workspace and workstation.

Sections

The data is organized in the following five divisions:

• Published standards from ISO TC 159
• ISO standards from ISO TC 159, in preparation
• Published standards from CEN TC 122
• Standards from CEN TC 122, in preparation
• Standards organized according to ergonomics topics

References

Dul, J., De Vries, H., Verschoof, S., Eveleens, W., Feilzer, A. (2004). Combining economic and social goals in the design of production systems by using ergonomics standards. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 47 (2-3), 207-222.

See also the following publications on the importance of the inclusion of end-users in the development of ergonomics standards, available as pdf-files.

Dul, J., Willemse, H., De Vries, H. (2004). Participatory design of work equipment. How end-user data can be integrated into the ISO and CEN systems. Newsletter of the European Trade Union Technical Burreau for Health and Safety, 24, pp 25-27.

Dul, J., Willemse, H., De Vries, H. (2004). Conception Participative des Equipements de Travail. Comment intégrer les données provenant de l'utilisateur final dans les systèmes de l'ISO et du CEN. Newsletter du BTS, 24-25, 28-30.

Dul, J., Willemse, H., De Vries, H. (2003). Ergonomics standards: identifying stakeholders and encouraging participation. ISO Bulletin, September, 19-23.

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Page created 2005 by referring to Jan Dul et al. (2004) - last revision 09.10.2007 by Dietmar Gude