IS 16574 : 2024/ISO 15537 : 2022 Principles for Selecting and Using Test Persons for Testing Anthropometric Aspects of Industrial Products and Designs
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical to ISO 15537 : 2022 'Principles for selecting and using test persons for testing anthropometric aspects of industrial products and designs' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Ergonomics Sectional Committee and approval of the Production and General Engineering Division Council.
An investigation into how far ergonomic requirements are taken into consideration with regard to industrial products and designs is often performed using test equipment that permits only one or a few parameters (for example, body height) to be registered. With regard to the concurrent multifunctional testing and/or determination of product characteristics for which no technical testing procedures have been established, one or more people are often designated as test persons and are observed and/or questioned during or after product testing.
The reliability of any findings established in this way is very much dependent on the extent to which the test persons represent the intended user group in different aspects. How well a product or design is adjusted to the anthropometrics of the intended user population is dealt with in this document.
According to IS 16572/ISO 14738, workstations at machinery have to be designed with proper regard to the body dimensions of the intended user population. One means to verify that a product or a design fulfils this requirement is to set up a panel of test persons and let them test the product in different ways.
This standard was first published in 2004 based on ISO 15537 : 2004. This revision has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of ISO 15537.
The major changes have been incorporated in this revision are as follows:
a) The context has been broadened to include testing by computer-aided design (CAD); and
b) European values in tables have been replaced by global values.
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.