Commission for Occupational Health and Safety and Standardization (KAN)

• Musculoskeletal stresses arising during transport of patients on wheeled stretchers
• Three questions for: Professor Dr Rolf Ellegast, the new Director of the Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the DGUV
• Testing of the non-slip characteristics of floor coverings
• Standards for all: gender-responsive and inclusive
• Market surveillance: the European concept and national enforcement
• Construction sector pools experience across borders

Download KANBrief 1/25:

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Survey and evaluation of findings concerning human factors in the sphere of digital ergonomics

The report provides an overview of digital human models (DHMs), their
characteristics, and what they are capable of. In addition, the authors identified the
motion capture (mocap) systems that had been examined in studies.

Download KAN Study 07/2023 (pdf) (German with an English summary)
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