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    Modules: Learning ergonomics

    The website provides ergonomic subject-matter specially developed for use in teaching… to the modules

Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardization (KAN)

We represent occupational health and safety interests in the standardization process


News

Hans-Peter Kern © DGUV
2025-09-16

New chair of the Governing Committee at the DGUV and VFA

Hans-Peter Kern has been appointed the new chair of the Governing…

KAN-Veröffentlichung ©KAN
2025-09-15

New KAN position papers

KAN has published several position papers in recent months: …

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2025-08-19

A+A 2025: KAN will be there

A+A, the occupational safety and health trade fair, welcomes…

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2025-08-04

ISO 1999 acoustic standard: revised version containing errors is averted

ISO 1999:1990, Acoustics – Estimation of noise-induced hearing…

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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

KAN is composed of representatives from

  • Government
  • Employers
  • Employees
  • German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)/VFA
  • German Institute for Standardization (DIN)
  • Permanent guests:
    • Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy
    • DKE German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies
    • Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG)