IS 16573 : 2025/ISO 15535 : 2023 General Requirements for Establishing Anthropometric Databases
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical to ISO 15535 : 2023 'General requirements for establishing anthropometric databases' 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 well-being of people is very much dependent on their proportional and geometric relationship with several factors, such as growth, design principles for clothing, transportation, workplace and homes, as well as, sporting and recreational activities. Implementation of databases on body dimensions of a population supports essential health and safety requirements, as well as, standards in the field of machinery safety and personal protective equipment, and has acquired importance in the devising of computer-generated manikins of the human body.
One of the major difficulties in formulating databases on anthropometry is, that the numerous existing studies are rarely comparable in the strictest sense. Difficulties arise in comparing one study with another because either the methods used differ or they are not sufficiently well described. The anthropometric standards used for the data collection are fundamental to setting up any anthropometric databases.
This standard was first published in 2017 based on ISO 15535 : 2012. This revision has been brought out to align it with the latest version of ISO 15535.
The major changes in this revision are as follows:
a) Recommendation of tabulation for sex combined statistics in 9.4 has been removed;
b) Term "sex" has been replaced with "gender";
c) Term "subject" has been replaced with "participant";
d) Term "examination" has been replaced with "measurement";
e) Annex A has been revised to add another method for estimating a necessary sample size;
f) Table C.1 has been revised to correspond with dimension numbers in IS 13214 (Part 1)/ISO 7250-1 and also some minor technical revisions have been made in the table; and
g) Former Annexes G and H have been removed.
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'; and
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.