ICS 13.110; 13.180                                                                                          BPD 15

Reaffirmed 2021

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part 3) which is identical with ISO 15534-3 : 2000 ‘Ergonomic design for the safety of machinery - Part 3: Anthropometric data’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Ergonomics Sectional Committee and approval of the Production and General Engineering Division Council.

The other parts in this series are as follows:

Part 1 Principles for determining the dimensions required for openings for whole-body access into machinery

Part 2 Principles for determining the dimensions required for access openings

This standard specifies current requirements for human body measurements (anthropometric data) that are required by Parts 1 and 2 of this standard for the calculation of access-opening dimensions as applied to machinery.

The anthropometric data originate irom static measurements of nude persons and do not take into account body movements, clothing, equipment, machinery-operating conditions or environmental conditions.

The data are based on information from anthropometric surveys representative of population groups within Europe comprising at least three million people. Both men and women are taken into account.

Measurements are given, as required by Parts 1 and 2 of this standard for the 5th and 99th percentile of the relevant population group within Europe.

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.

For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this standard is complied with, the final value, observed or calculated, expressing the result of a test or analysis, shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2 : 1960 ‘Rules for rounding off numerical values (revised)’. The number of significant places retained in the rounded off value should be the same as that of the specified value in this standard.