ISO 13090 is an international standard on mechanical vibration and shock that discusses the guidance on safety aspects of tests and experiments with people to ensure the safety of the human subject during an experiment.
ISO 13090-1 is the first part of the ISO 13090 series that provides guidance on the safety aspects of the design of equipment and the conduct of tests and experiments in the laboratory in which human subjects are exposed to mechanical vibration and repeated shock.
ISO 13090-1 is concerned with tests and experiments in which subjects are exposed to whole-body mechanical vibration and repeated shock, as described in ISO 2631-1.
The experiments to which ISO 13090-1 is applicable include those performed to determine the response of subjects to mechanical vibration and repeated shock stimuli. They also include those experiments in which mechanical vibration and repeated shock are part of the environment in which other investigations are performed and experiments or tests to compare the attributes of equipment intended to alleviate the effects of mechanical vibration and repeated shock on the user (e.g., testing of seat suspensions, seat cushions and other attenuating devices, including tests according to ISO 10326-1).
Note: Measures in addition to those described ISO 13090-1 may be necessary for those countries which have relevant national requirements.
ISO 13090-1 on the guidance for the safety of the whole body from mechanical vibration and repeated shock is useful for:
People may be exposed to mechanical vibration and repeated shock intentionally during experiments to determine their response to such environments and during experiments or tests performed for other purposes. It is widely accepted that exposure to mechanical vibration and repeated shock of sufficient magnitude can cause injury or impair health.
ISO 13090-1 provides you with guidance on hazards of mechanical vibration and repeated shock experiments on human test subjects, classifying experiments according to the severity of vibration exposure, practice for laboratory tests and experiments, selection of human test subjects, etc.
The guidance provided by ISO 13090-1 assist you in reducing the chance of the subjects, or those monitoring or conducting the experiments, being exposed to undue risk of injury or impaired health arising from such exposure, or of injury attributable to the malfunction or poor operation of the equipment used to generate the mechanical vibration and repeated shock.
With obedience and compliance to ISO 13090-1, you can enhance safety, improve human working conditions, and counteract adverse effects on human subjects’ health due to repeated mechanical vibration and repeated shock.
EN ISO 13090-1:1998