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Committee

Committee:

CTN 81 - Occupational health and safety

Secretary:
INSST - INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SEGURIDAD Y SALUD EN EL TRABAJO
Field of Activity:
Standardization of:

- Collective and personal protective equipment in the workplace;

- Safety resources to incorporate in machinery as well as safety recourses to incorporate in the work environment;

- Apparatus and devices to control pollutants in working environment as well as the determination of pollutants concentration;

- Ergonomic principles, anthropometric measures and others factors related to the adaptation human-machinery-human;

- General preventive and protective means that could affect the worker security and the work environment incorporating terminology, security and function aptitude requirements, operating instructions, maintenance, size, test methods, classification and marking;

Excluding:

- Collective and personal protective means in the workplace related to nuclear security, mining security and electric;

- Specific personal protective means of machine to machine;

- Safety machine to machine which is explicitly covered by the work of other technical committees.
Structure:

SC 1 Personal protective means

SC 2 Collective protective means

SC 3 Safety of machinery

SC 4 Assessment and chemical agents hazards

SC 5 Ergonomics and pcicosociology

SC 6 Mechanical vibration and shock

GT 3 Emerging risks

GT 3  (GAH)

International Relations:

ISO/TC 94  Personal safety -- Personal protective equipment

ISO/TC 108  Mechanical vibration, shock and condition monitoring

ISO/TC 146/SC 2  Workplace atmospheres

ISO/TC 159  Ergonomics

ISO/TC 199  Safety of machinery

ISO/TC 283  Occupational health and safety management

CEN/CLC/COG MACHINERY  Machinery

CEN/CLC/COG Personal Protective Equipment  Personal Protective Equipment

CEN/CLC/JTC 23  Horizontal topics for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

CEN/CLC/SAG Occupational Health and Safety  Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)

CEN/SS S30  Occupational health and safety management systems

CEN/SS S13  Ergonomics

CEN/TC 79  Respiratory protective devices

CEN/TC 85  Eye protective equipment

CEN/TC 93  Ladders

CEN/TC 114  Safety of machinery

CEN/TC 122  Ergonomics

CEN/TC 137  Assessment of workplace exposure to chemical and biological agents

CEN/TC 158  Head protection

CEN/TC 159  Hearing protectors

CEN/TC 160  Protection against falls from height including working belts

CEN/TC 161  Foot and leg protectors

CEN/TC 162  Protective clothing including hand and arm protection and lifejackets

CEN/TC 231  Mechanical vibration and shock

CEN/WS DIV  Requirements for acquiring digital information from victims during Search and Rescue operations

CEN/WS SOPHIA  Biomechanical risk assessment: Guideline for introducing and implementing real-time instrumental-based tools for biomechanical risk assessment

* Some activities of this TC correspond to other AEN/CTN.

Standards developed by the committee: CTN 81: 1391

UNE-EN 397:2025/AC:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-10-01

Industrial protective helmets (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in October of 2025.)

UNE-EN 17950:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-10-01

Protective helmets - Test methods - Shock absorption including measuring rotational kinematics (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in October of 2024.)

UNE-EN ISO 374-6:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-10-01

Protective gloves against dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms - Part 6: Protective gloves for hairdressers (ISO 374-6:2025) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in October of 2025.)

UNE-EN 131-1:2015+A2:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 1: Terms, types, functional sizes (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in September of 2025.)

UNE-EN 131-2:2010+A3:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in September of 2025.)

UNE-EN 131-3:2018+A1:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 3: Marking and user instructions (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in September of 2025.)

UNE-EN 131-4:2020+A1:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 4: Single or multiple hinge-joint ladders (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in September of 2025.)

UNE-EN 131-6:2019+A1:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 6: Telescopic ladders (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in September of 2025.)

UNE-EN 13205-1:2015

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Workplace exposure - Assessment of sampler performance for measurement of airborne particle concentrations - Part 1: General requirements

UNE-EN 13205-2:2015

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Workplace exposure - Assessment of sampler performance for measurement of airborne particle concentrations - Part 2: Laboratory performance test based on determination of sampling efficiency

UNE-EN 13205-4:2015

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Workplace exposure - Assessment of sampler performance for measurement of airborne particle concentrations - Part 4: Laboratory performance test based on comparison of concentrations

UNE-EN 13205-5:2015

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Workplace exposure - Assessment of sampler performance for measurement of airborne particle concentrations - Part 5: Aerosol sampler performance test and sampler comparison carried out at workplaces

UNE-EN 13205-6:2015

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Workplace exposure - Assessment of sampler performance for measurement of airborne particle concentrations - Part 6: Transport and handling tests

UNE-EN ISO 12609-1:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Eye and face protection against intense light sources used on humans and animals for cosmetic and medical applications - Part 1: Specification for products (ISO 12609-1:2021) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in August of 2025.)

UNE-EN 17353:2020+A1:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-08-01

Protective clothing - Enhanced visibility equipment for medium risk situations - Test methods and requirements (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in August of 2025.)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-112:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-07-01

Ergonomics of human-system interaction - Part 112: Principles for the presentation of information (ISO 9241-112:2025) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2025.)

UNE-EN 943-1:2015+A1:2019 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-25

Protective clothing against dangerous solid, liquid and gaseous chemicals, including liquid and solid aerosols - Part 1: Performance requirements for Type 1 (gas-tight) chemical protective suits (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in June of 2019.)

UNE-EN 14605:2005+A1:2009

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-02

Protective clothing against liquid chemicals - performance requirements for clothing with liquid-tight (Type 3) or spray-tight (Type 4) connections, including items providing protection to parts of the body only (Types PB [3] and PB [4])

UNE-EN 397:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE2025-06-01

Industrial protective helmets (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in June of 2025.)

UNE-EN ISO 13997:2025

Status: VIGENTE2025-05-28

Protective clothing - Mechanical properties - Determination of resistance to cutting by sharp objects (ISO 13997:2024)