Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs) General introduction

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24-07-2002

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British Standards Institution

1 Scope
2 Normative reference
3 Definitions
4 General introduction to ISO 9241
    4.1 Purpose and intended users
    4.2 Product specifications, technological change and
          the user-performance approach
5 Structure of ISO 9241
6 Guidance on use of ISO 9241
7 Reporting conformance to parts of ISO 9241
Annex A (informative) Bibliography

Discusses ergonomic requirements for office work using visual display terminals, including guidelines for a user-performance approach, giving a wide range of generic text and data processing applications. Also gives an overview of ISO 9241 and specifies its use.

This part of ISO9241

introduces the multipart standard on ergonomic requirements for the use of visual display terminals for office tasks;
provides guidelines for a user-performance approach;
gives an overview of all parts of ISO9241 currently published and of the anticipated content of those in preparation;
provides some guidance on how to use ISO9241;
describes how conformance to ISO9241 should be reported.

For the purposes of ISO9241, office tasks are taken to include a wide range of generic text and data processing tasks. Due to the similarity of these tasks to tasks performed in other environments, e.g. medical, scientific, telecommunications, control rooms and public access, many of the requirements in ISO9241 are appropriate to these environments as well.

ISO9241 does not cover electrical safety of VDTs. This is covered by IEC950.

NOTE— The ergonomic requirements of flat panel displays are covered in ISO13406‑1 and ISO13406‑2. More extensive guidance on human-centred design for interactive systems is provided in ISO13407.

Committee	PH/9
DevelopmentNote	Supersedes BS EN 29241-1, 95/502050 DC and 99/563886 DC (08/2002)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	26
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Current
Supersedes	95/502050 DC : DRAFT AUG 1995 BS EN 29241-1:1993 99/563886 DC : DRAFT JULY 1999

Standards	Relationship
UNI EN ISO 9241-1 : 2003	Identical
NS EN ISO 9241-1 : 97 AMD 1 2001	Identical
ISO 9241-1:1997	Identical
NBN EN ISO 9241-1 : 1997 AMD 1 2001	Identical
I.S. EN ISO 9241-1:1998	Identical
EN ISO 9241-1:1997/A1:2001	Identical
NF EN ISO 9241-1 : 97 AMD 1 2001	Identical
NEN EN ISO 9241-1 : 1997 AMD 1 2001	Identical
SN EN ISO 9241-1 : 1998 AMD 1 2001	Identical
ONORM EN ISO 9241-1 : 1998 AMD 1 2002	Identical
UNE-EN ISO 9241-1:1997	Identical
DIN EN ISO 9241-1:2002-02	Identical

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BS 7988:2002	Code of practice for the use of information technology (IT) in the delivery of assessments

IEC 60950:1999	Safety of information technology equipment
ISO 13406-1:1999	Ergonomic requirements for work with visual displays based on flat panels Part 1: Introduction
ENV 26385 : 1990	ERGONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF THE DESIGN OF WORK SYSTEMS
ISO 6385:2016	Ergonomics principles in the design of work systems
ISO 13407:1999	Human-centred design processes for interactive systems
ISO 13406-2:2001	Ergonomic requirements for work with visual displays based on flat panels Part 2: Ergonomic requirements for flat panel displays

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