ICS 13.110; 13.180                                                                             BPD 15

Reaffirmed 2023

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part 1) which is identical with ISO 15534-1 : 2000 ‘Ergonomic design for the safety of machinery - Part 1 : Principles for determining the dimensions required for openings for whole-body access into machinery’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Ergonomics Secticnal Committee and approval of the Production and General Engineering Division Council.

The other parts in this series are as follows:

Part 2 Principles for determining the dimensions required for access openings

Part 3 Anthropometric data

This standard specifies the dimension of openings for whole body access into machinery as defined in ISO/TR 12100-1. This standard has been prepared primarily for non-mobile machinery; there may be additional specific requirements for mobile machinery.

The anthropometric data given in Part 3 of this standard originate from static measurements of nude persons and do not take into account body movements, clothing, equipment, machinery-operating conditions or environmental conditions.

This standard shows how to combine the anthropometric data with suitable allowances to take these factors into account.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

The technical committee responsible for the preparation of this standard has reviewed the provisions of following International Standards referred in this adopted standard and has decided that they are acceptable for use in conjunction with this standard: