BS EN 1005-3:2002+A1:2008 Safety of machinery. Human physical performance. Recommended force limits for machinery operation

BS EN 1005-3 presents guidance to the manufacturer of machinery or its component parts and the writer of C-standards in controlling health risks due to machine-related muscular force exertion.

BS EN 1005-3 specifies recommended force limits for actions during machinery operation including construction, transport and commissioning (assembly, installation, adjustment), use (operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance, setting, teaching or process changeover) decommissioning, disposal and dismantling. The standard applies primarily to machines which are manufactured after the date of issue of the standard.

BS EN 1005-3 applies on one hand to machinery for professional use operated by the adult working population, who are healthy workers with ordinary physical capacity, and on the other hand to machinery for domestic use operated by the whole population including youth and old people.

The recommendations are derived from research on a European population.

BS EN 1005-3 does not apply to machinery manufactured before the date of it’s publication by CEN.

Contents of BS EN 1005-3:

Foreword
Introduction
Scope
Normative references
Terms and definitions
Recommendations
General recommendations and information
Risk assessment of action forces
Step A: Determination of basic force generating capacity
Step B: Determination of adjusted capacity
Step C: Evaluation of tolerability and risk
Factors affecting risk
Working posture
Acceleration and movement precision
Vibration
Man-machine interaction
Personal protective equipment
External environment
Calculation procedure for Alternative 2
General
Input parameters
Procedure
Force distribution
Logarithmic transformation
Calculation of force percentiles
Results
Calculation procedure for Alternative 3
General
Input parameters
Force
User demography
Procedure
Synthetical distribution parameters of subgroups
Logarithmic distributions
Generation of new distribution functions of male and female subgroups
Weighting and combining of all subgroup distributions
Calculation of percentiles
Result
Relationship between this European Standard and the Essential Requirements of EU Directive 98/37/EC, amended by 98/79/EC
Relationship between this European Standard and the Essential Requirements of EU Directive 2006/42/EC
Bibliography

BS EN 1005-3:2002+A1:2008

Safety of machinery. Human physical performance - Recommended force limits for machinery operation

Current

Published:

26 Feb 2002