Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardization (KAN)

We represent occupational health and safety interests in the standardization process



KANBrief 3/25

Climate change: spheres of activity for standardization

  • KAN expert discussion explores topics for standardization
  • Digital product passports for the circular economy
  • Three questions for: Marion Hasper, Coordination network for German environmental NGOs on standardisation (KNU)
  • Ventilation requirements for operator’s cabins: horizontal standard rather than individual solutions
  • When standards lose their memory
  • Occupational safety and health and standardization: still exciting, 30 years on

Download KANBrief 3/25:

KANBrief 3/25, English (pdf)
KANBrief 3/25, full trilingual print version (pdf)
List of all KANBrief issues 

KAN Study

Digital ergonomics

Survey and evaluation of findings concerning human factors in the sphere of digital ergonomics

The report provides an overview of digital human models (DHMs), their
characteristics, and what they are capable of. In addition, the authors identified the
motion capture (mocap) systems that had been examined in studies.

Download KAN Study 07/2023 (pdf) (German with an English summary)
List of all KAN Studies


KAN

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