The Federation of European
Ergonomics Societies was represented at the Directive 89/686/EEC
Working group meeting in Brussels, 21 April 2015, by Reinier
Hoftijzer as member of the S&G working group.
The Federation of European
Ergonomics Societies was represented at the Directive 89/686/EEC
Working group meeting in Brussels, 21 April 2015, by Reinier
Hoftijzer as member of the S&G working group.
To represent ergonomics in European
level is extremely important because the existing PPE Directive will
be replaced by a European PPE regulation. Besides up to date changes
in the legislation it also means that this new regulation has not to
be transformed into national legislation of the European Member
States. By the end of 2014 there was a common Council position. The
final voting in the European Parliament will very soon. It is
expected that the final decision between EU/Commission/Parliament and
final version agreement will be available before summer 2015. There
will be a transition period of at three years (2018).
The Federation of European
Ergonomics Societies can give opinion regarding the part of the
guidelines concerning Ergonomics. All decisions regarding the new
guidelines have to be taken before the end of 2015.
On behalf of CEN there was also
announced that there will a new proposal for a horizontal TC
(Technical Committee) of CEN and CENELEC under Dutch secretariat
(NNI) about horizontal subjects regarding “Personal Protective
Ensembles and Systems” (also Ergonomics). Also under CEN TC 122
Ergonomics at the meeting in Prague (4 and 5 May) was a decision on a
new WG (Working group) “Ergonomics design and evaluation of
integrated PPE systems”, also under Dutch secretariat (NNI) and
Dutch convenor.
The next meeting will be on 17 November
2015.