ISO standards in the area of the Ergonomics of the Physical Environment

Introduction

International standards for the design and assessment of physical environments are produced by ISO TC159 SC5 and other ISO committees. It can be considered that all of the standards lead to the design of the physical environment for people. The system of standards for cold stress, thermal comfort and heat stress are provided in figures 1, 2 and 3 and are represented in integrated form in figure 4. As well as contributing to thermal environments, clothing (see also ISO TC94 SC13), metabolic rate (related to energy and fatigue) and overall risk assessment strategy are relevant to physical environments (ISO 9920, ISO 8996 and ISO 15265). ISO 10551…