growing availability of affordable communication technologies also puts the smart factory within reach of medium-sized companies. Manufacturers face the challenge of meeting the increasingly differentiated
building. The retention of this functionality must be tested. For this purpose, agreement must be reached on the minimum requirements for the technical reliability of the systems. Back-up systems may have
ageing. Out of 5.5 million inhabitants, over 1 million are now aged 65 or over. This number will reach 1.5 million by 2030. In the working population, too, the proportion of older workers is increasing
and instruments all be brought together efficiently in such a way that the shared objective is reached? One conclusion from the 4th EUROSHNET conference, held in Helsinki in 2012, was that market surveillance
position paper is also intended to provide motivation and to serve as a point of reference for more far-reaching practical guides for the users of the standard. DIN calls upon ISO to consider the details of the
The quality of a harmonized European standard depends above all upon the quality of the consensus reached by the experts, the active and balanced participation of the stakeholders, and the care taken in
generally accelerated and do not involve the OSH lobby. Since a consensus need not necessarily be reached, a risk exists of particular interest groups exerting undue influence upon standardization through
of individual comments with the standards committees, it became clear that it is not even easy to reach agreement upon which measurements are trivial. Criteria for measurement provisions When factors are
s, and serve an important purpose in many areas of European legislation. They may also have far-reaching impacts on society, for example on consumers, the environment and the safety of workers. In accordance
negotiations. As a result, these two Regulations are no longer optimally intermeshed – the solution reached by the legislators at EU level isn’t as user-friendly as it could have been. Another new aspect in
