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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 13098:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-04-26

Workplace exposure - Measurement of airborne microorganisms and microbial compounds - General requirements

UNE-EN ISO 16321-1:2022/A1:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-04-01

Eye and face protection for occupational use - Part 1: General requirements - Amendment 1 (ISO 16321-1:2021/Amd 1:2024) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in April of 2025.)

UNE-CEN/TS 18117:2025 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-03-01

Workplace exposure - Detection and characterization of airborne NOAA using electron microscopy - Rules for sampling and analysis (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in March of 2025.)

UNE-EN 1149-3:2004

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-02-24

Protective clothing - Electrostatic properties - Part 3: Test methods for measurement of charge decay

UNE-EN 17487:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-02-01

Protective clothing - Garments with permethrin as-treated articles supporting the protection against tick bites (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in February of 2025.)

UNE 81652:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-01-22

Safety nets under falsework. Safety requirements and test methods

UNE-EN ISO 10075-2:2025

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-01-15

Ergonomic principles related to mental workload - Part 2: Design principles (ISO 10075-2:2024)

UNE-EN 14458:2018 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2025-01-01

Personal eye-equipment - High performance visors intended only for use with protective helmets (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in October of 2018.)

UNE-EN ISO 17491-4:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-12-30

Protective clothing - Test methods for clothing providing protection against chemicals - Part 4: Determination of resistance to penetration by a spray of liquid (spray test) (ISO 17491-4:2024)

UNE-EN ISO 24231:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-12-30

Protective clothing - Protection against rain - Test method for ready-made garments against high-energy droplets from above (ISO 24231:2024)

UNE-EN ISO 21420:2020/A1:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-12-04

Protective gloves - General requirements and test methods - Amendment 1 (ISO 21420:2020/Amd 1:2022)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-920:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-12-01

Ergonomics of human-system interaction - Part 920: Tactile and haptic interactions (ISO 9241-920:2024) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in December of 2024.)

UNE-CEN/TS 18086:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-12-01

Workplace exposure - Direct-reading low-cost particulate matter sensors for measuring airborne NOAA - Guidelines for application (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in December of 2024.)

UNE-EN 134:2024

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-20

Respiratory protective devices - Nomenclature of components

UNE-EN 353-2:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-01

Personal fall protection equipment - Part 2: Guided type fall arresters including a flexible anchor line (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in November of 2024.)

UNE-EN 17199-1:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-01

Workplace exposure - Measurement of dustiness of bulk materials that contain or release respirable NOAA and other respirable particles - Part 1: Requirements and choice of test methods

UNE-EN 17199-2:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-01

Workplace exposure - Measurement of dustiness of bulk materials that contain or release respirable NOAA or other respirable particles - Part 2: Rotating drum method

UNE-EN 17199-3:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-01

Workplace exposure - Measurement of dustiness of bulk materials that contain or release respirable NOAA or other respirable particles - Part 3: Continuous drop method

UNE-EN 17199-4:2022

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-01

Workplace exposure - Measurement of dustiness of bulk materials that contain or release respirable NOAA or other respirable particles - Part 4: Small rotating drum method

UNE-EN ISO 12312-1:2022/A11:2024 (Ratificada)

Status: VIGENTE / 2024-11-01

Eye and face protection - Sunglasses and related eyewear - Part 1: Sunglasses for general use (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in November of 2024.)