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European Directive 2002/44/CE
Directive 2002/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (vibration).
This is the basic vibration directive brought in under the European framework directive concerning OSH (see CIS 89-1401). Contents: scope (all activities where workers may be exposed to vibration); definitions of hand-arm and whole-body vibration; exposure limits (hand-arm vibration: 5m/s² for 8h daily exposure limit and 2.5m/s² for 8h daily exposure action value; whole-body vibration: 1.15 and 0.5m/s², respectively; at the choice of the Member States; obligations of employers (risk determination and assessment, provisions aimed at avoiding and reducing exposure, information and training of workers, worker consultation and participation); miscellaneous provisions (health surveillance, derogations).
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ISO 5349 Standard
Mechanical vibration - Measurement and evaluation of human exposure to hand-transmitted vibration
Part 1: General requirements : The 1st part of ISO 5349 specifies general requirements for measuring and reporting exposure to vibration by hand in three orthogonal axes. It defines a frequency weighting filters and limiters band to allow a uniform comparison of measurements. The values obtained can be used to predict adverse effects of vibrations transmitted by hand over the frequency range covered by the octave bands between 8 Hz and 1 000 Hz. This part of ISO 5349 is applicable to periodic vibration, random or non-periodic vibration.

Part 2: Practical guidance for measurement at the workplace : This part of ISO 5349 describes the precautions to make representative measurements of vibrations and determine the duration of daily exposure for each transaction in order to calculate the total value of equivalent vibration for a period of 8 h (daily exposure vibration). It offers a means to determine the operations to be taken into account when determining the exposure to vibration. This part of ISO 5349 applies to all situations where people are exposed to vibration in hand-arm by hand-held or hand-guided, parts or vibrating worked the controls of machinery mobile or fixed.

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ISO 2631 Standard
Mechanical Vibration and Shock - Evaluation of human exposure to whole-body vibration
This standard defines methods to quantify whole-body vibration.
It also explains how to compute the various exposure values.
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ISO 10326 Standard
Mechanical vibration - Laboratory method for evaluation vehicle seat vibration
This standard defines measurement means to evaluate seats behavior regarding vibration.
Particularly, it defines the characteristics, dimensions and properties that semi-rigid interfaces to be placed on seats must comply to.
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ISO 8041 Standard
Human response to vibration — Measuring instrumentation
This standard - intended to be followed by measuring devices manufacturers - defines the minimum performances and other requirements that must be met by vibration measuring devices.
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