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[January 2007]
BSI Revises Ergonomic Design Principles Standard
BSI has announced 'BS EN 614-1:2006 Safety of machinery. Ergonomic design principles. Terminology and general principles'.Ergonomics is the multi-disciplinary field of science and its application. Applying ergonomics to the design of work systems, especially where the design of machinery is concerned, ensures that human capabilities, skills, limitations and needs are taken into account. Ergonomically designed work systems enhance safety, improve human working and living conditions and counteract adverse effects on human health. They also usually improve the operator-machine system performance and reliability.
BS EN 614-1 has been newly revised so it is fully up to date with the ergonomic principles to be followed during the designing process of machinery. It applies to the interactions between operators and machinery when installing, operating, adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, dismantling, repairing or transporting equipment, and outlines the principles to be followed in taking the health, safety and well-being of the operator into account.
The work system includes operators, job design, work equipment (e.g.
machinery) work space, work environment, work process and the interactions between them. Good design takes into account how the operator is expected to interact with the work equipment and how the work equipment fits into the system as a whole.BS EN 614-1 supersedes BS EN 614-1:1995 which has been withdrawn.
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