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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 ISO 20346:2022/A1:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-30

Personal protective equipment - Protective footwear - Amendment 1 (ISO 20346:2021/Amd 1:2024)

UNE-EN ISO 20345:2022/A1:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-30

Personal protective equipment - Safety footwear - Amendment 1 (ISO 20345:2021/Amd 1:2024)

UNE-EN ISO 20347:2022/A1:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-30

Personal protective equipment - Occupational footwear - Amendment 1 (ISO 20347:2021/Amd 1:2024)

UNE-EN 358:2018 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-08

Personal protective equipment for work positioning and prevention of falls from a height - Belts and lanyards for work positioning or restraint (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in March of 2019.)

UNE-EN 1497:2008

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-08

Personal fall protection equipment - Rescue harnesses

UNE-EN 363:2018 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-08

Personal fall protection equipment - Personal fall protection systems (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in March of 2019.)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-5:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-10-01

Ergonomics of human-system interaction - Part 5: Workstation layout and postural requirements (ISO 9241-5:2024) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in October of 2024.)

UNE-EN ISO 45001:2023/A1:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-09-25

Occupational health and safety management systems - Requirements with guidance for use - Amendment 1: Climate action changes (ISO 45001:2018/Amd 1:2024)

UNE-ISO 5805:2017

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-09-20

Mechanical vibration and shock -- Human exposure – Vocabulary.

UNE-EN 17058:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-08-17

Workplace exposure - Assessment of exposure by inhalation of nano-objects and their aggregates and agglomerates

UNE-EN 16966:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-08-17

Workplace exposure - Measurement of exposure by inhalation of nano-objects and their aggregates and agglomerates - Metrics to be used such as number concentration, surface area concentration and mass concentration

UNE-EN ISO 13506-1:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-08-01

Protective clothing against heat and flame - Part 1: Test method for complete garments - Measurement of transferred energy using an instrumented manikin (ISO 13506-1:2024) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in August of 2024.)

UNE-EN ISO 13506-2:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-08-01

Protective clothing against heat and flame - Part 2: Skin burn injury prediction - Calculation requirements and test cases (ISO 13506-2:2024) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in August of 2024.)

UNE-EN ISO 20344:2022/A1:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-24

Personal protective equipment - Test methods for footwear - Amendment 1 (ISO 20344:2021/Amd 1:2024)

UNE-EN 14404-1:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-01

Personal protective equipment - Knee protectors for work in the kneeling position - Part 1: Test methods (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2024.)

UNE-EN 14404-2:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-01

Personal protective equipment - Knee protectors for work in the kneeling position - Part 2: Requirements for wearable knee protectors (type 1) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2024.)

UNE-EN 14404-3:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-01

Personal protective equipment - Knee protectors for work in the kneeling position - Part 3: Requirements for the individual combination of knee pads and garments (type 2) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2024.)

UNE-EN 14404-4:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-01

Personal protective equipment - Knee protectors for work in the kneeling position - Part 4: Requirements for the combination of interoperable knee pads and garments (type 2) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2024.)

UNE-EN 14404-5:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-01

Personal protective equipment - Knee protectors for work in the kneeling position - Part 5: Requirements for knee mats (type 3) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2024.)

UNE-EN 14404-6:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-07-01

Personal protective equipment - Knee protectors for work in the kneeling position - Part 6: Requirements for kneeling systems (type 4) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in July of 2024.)