ICS 13.110; 13.180                          PGD 15

Reaffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO 14738 : 2002 ‘Safety of machinery - Anthropometric requirements for the design of workstations at machinery’ 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.

This standard is one of several ergonomics standards for the safety of machinery. This standard describes the principles should be applied by using anthropometric requirements for the design of workstations at machinery.

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.