Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardization (KAN)

• Revision of the EU Standardisation Regulation
• 50th anniversary of the contract between DIN and the German government
• Three questions for: Eckhard Metze, Head of the employers’ liaison office at the KAN Secretariat until March 2025
• Combating vulnerabilities with standards: new EU cybersecurity rules
• Standardization and its contribution to the safety of insured persons in the public sector
• Standardization of cabinets for safe storage and charging of lithium-ion batteries

Download KANBrief 2/25:

KANBrief 2/25, English (pdf)
KANBrief 2/25, full trilingual print version (pdf)
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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)
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