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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 13995:2001

Status: VIGENTE / 2001-07-24

Protective clothing - Mechanical properties - Test method for the determination of the resistance to puncture and dynamic tearing of materials. (ISO 13995:2000)

UNE-EN 145/A1:2001

Status: VIGENTE / 2001-02-28

RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES. SELF-CONTAINED CLOSED-CIRCUIT BREATHING APPARATUS COMPRESSED OXYGEN OR COMPRESSED OXYGEN-NITROGEN TYPE. REQUIREMENTS, TESTING, MARKING.

UNE-EN ISO 9241-6:2000

Status: VIGENTE / 2000-07-26

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTs). PART 6: GUIDANCE ON THE WORK ENVIRONMENT (ISO 9241-6:1999)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-16:2000

Status: VIGENTE / 2000-04-26

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTS). PART 16: DIRECT MANIPULATION DIALOGUES (ISO 9241-16:1999)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-14:1999

Status: VIGENTE / 1999-12-17

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTS) - PART 14: MENU DIALOGUES (ISO 9241-14:1997)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-13:1999

Status: VIGENTE / 1999-04-28

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTS). PART 13: USER GUIDANCE (ISO 9241-13:1998)

UNE-EN ISO 13090-1:1999

Status: VIGENTE / 1999-04-19

MECHANICAL VIBRATION AND SHOCK. GUIDANCE ON SAFETY ASPECTS OF TESTS AND EXPERIMENTS WITH PEOPLE. PART 1: EXPOSURE TO WHOLE-BODY MECHANICAL VIBRATION AND REPEATED SHOCK (ISO 13090-1:1998)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-15:1998

Status: VIGENTE / 1998-11-10

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTS). PART 15: COMMAND DIALOGUES (ISO 9241-15:1997).

UNE-EN ISO 9241-1:1997

Status: VIGENTE / 1997-12-22

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTS). PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION. (ISO 9241-1:1997).

UNE-EN 464:1995

Status: VIGENTE / 1995-09-08

Protective clothing - Protection against liquid and gaseous chemicals, including aerosols and solid particles - Test method: Determination of leak-tightness of gas-tight suits (Internal pressure test)

UNE-EN 481:1995

Status: VIGENTE / 1995-01-20

WORKPLACE ATMOSPHERES. SIZE FRACTION DEFINITIONS FOR MEASUREMENT OF AIRBORNE PARTICLES.

UNE-EN 29241-2:1994

Status: VIGENTE / 1994-05-24

ERGONOMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE WORK WITH VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINALS (VDTS). PART 2: GUIDANDE ON TASK REQUIREMENTS. (ISO 9241-2:1992).

UNE-EN 131-1:2016+A1:2020

Status: ANULADA / 2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 1: Terms, types, functional sizes

UNE-EN 131-2:2010+A2:2017 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in March of 2018.)

UNE-EN 131-3:2018 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 3: Marking and user instructions (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in March of 2018.)

UNE-EN 131-4:2020 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 4: Single or multiple hinge-joint ladders (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in May of 2020.)

UNE-EN 131-6:2019 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-09-01

Ladders - Part 6: Telescopic ladders (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in May of 2020.)

UNE-EN 17353:2020 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-08-01

Protective clothing - Enhanced visibility equipment for medium risk situations - Test methods and requirements (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in November of 2020.)

UNE-EN ISO 9241-112:2017 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-07-01

Ergonomics of human-system interaction - Part 112: Principles for the presentation of information (ISO 9241-112:2017) (Endorsed by Asociación Española de Normalización in June of 2017.)

UNE-EN 397:2012+A1:2012 (Ratificada)

Status: ANULADA / 2025-06-01

Industrial safety helmets (Endorsed by AENOR in December of 2012.)