The KAN Secretariat
Management
Office of the Social Partners (employers, employees)
Management assistance
Language Service
Website Manager
Accounting and Committees
Departments
Director of the KAN Secretariat

Karl-Josef Thielen
Diplom Pädagoge
Phone: +49 2241 231 3470
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Deputy head of the KAN Secretariat
Head of "Safety Technology" Department

Werner Sterk
Diplom-Ingenieur
Phone: +49 2241 231 3460
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Deputy Head of the KAN Secretariat
Head of "Occupational Health and Ergonomics" Department

Angela Janowitz
Diplom-Biologin
Phone: +49 2241 231 3453
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Management assistance

Brigitta Hempel
Phone: +49 2241 231 3471
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Jasmina Ibrahimbegovic
Phone: +49 2241 231 3461
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Office of the Social Partners, Employers

Eckhard Metze
Diplom-Sozialwissenschaftler
Phone: +49 2241 231 3452
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- Consulting of associations on policy matters
- National and international standardization policy – Fundamental questions in standardization
- Occupational health and safety organization / OH&S management systems
- Ergonomics / mental stress
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Secretariat: Jasmina Ibrahimbegovic
Phone: +49 2241 231 3461
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Office of the Social Partners, Employees

Ulrich Bamberg
Diplom-Soziologe
Phone: +49 2241 231 3451
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- Consulting of trade unions on standardization issues
- Standardization policy
- Occupational health and safety organization / OH&S management systems
- Ergonomics / mental stress
- Safety of machinery
- Standardization in the field of personal protective equipment
- Occupational health and safety in the field of transport
- Public relations
- Editing of KAN-Reports

Secretariat: Gisela Piel
Phone: +49 2241 231 3456
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Language Service

Sonja Miesner
Diplom-Übersetzerin (FH)
Phone: +49 2241 231 3455
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- Translations (English, French)
- Terminology
- Editing the KANBrief
- European network for ccupational safety and health experts (EUROSHNET)
Website Manager

Ute Assenmacher
Diplom-Geographin
Phone: +49 2241 231 3465
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- KAN-Homepage
- European network for occupational safety and health experts (EUROSHNET)
- Ergonomics tuition modules
Accounting and Committees
Birgit Winkler
Phone: +49 2241 231 3459
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- VFA committees
- call for tenders
- financial planning for KAN studies
- KANMAIL

Gudrun Pohl
Phone +49 2241 231 3450
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- travel expense accounting
- budget and financial planning

Silke Born
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Departments
Dr. Dirk Bartnik
Diplom-Biologe
Phone: +49 2241 231 3449
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- Principles of egonomics standardization
- Ergonomics tuition modules
- Nanotechnology

Corado Mattiuzzo
Diplom-Ingenieur
Phone: +49 2241 231 3466
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- Machinery
- Personal protective equipment
- General product safety
- Pressure equipment
- Standardization policy
- Uncertainty of measurement
- Gas appliances
- Testing and certification
- Chemical hazards
- Fire and explosion protection

Michael Robert
Diplom-Geograph
Phone: +49 2241 231 3463
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- Construction products
- Editing the KANBrief
- European network for ccupational safety and health experts (EUROSHNET)

Katharina von Rymon Lipinski
Diplom-Agraringenieurin
Phone: + 49 2241 231 3467
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- Agricultural machinery
- New standardization products
- Lighting
- Indoor climate
- Safety signs
- KAN Website
Rita Schlüter
Diplom-Ingenieurin
Phone: +49 2241 231 3475
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- Machinery safety
- Industrial trucks
- Nanotechnology

Dr. Beate Schlutter
Diplom-Ingenieurin
Phone: +49 2241 231 3468
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- Safety of machinery
- Electric mobility
- Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Safety of electrical equipment
- Hazards caused by nonionizing radiation
- Electrotechnical standards in the area of health and safety of workers at the workplace

Dr. Michael Thierbach
Diplom-Physiker
(delegated to the European Commission Enterprise and Industryuntil the end of november 2013)

Dr. Anja Vomberg
Diplom-Biologin
Phone: +49 2241 231 3454
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Latest News
KANBrief 1/13 is now available online
Service standards are in the ascendency
[Download KANBrief 1/13]

Ergonomics tuition modules now available in English
With over 1,000 users since 2008 and considerable positive feedback, the KAN ergonomics tuition modules provided free of charge in German are clearly popular resources for the teaching of ergonomics. [more]
European Draft Standards at Public Enquiry Stage (OSH), Source: NoRA [show list]





