What is BS 7085-Guidance for the safety of people exposed to mechanical vibration and shock about?
BS 7085 is a British standard that discusses the guidance for the safety of people exposed to mechanical vibration and shock to ensure a reduction in the risk to people exposed to mechanical vibration and shock.
BS 7085 provides guidance on safety aspects of the design of equipment and the conduct of experiments in which human test subjects are exposed to mechanical vibration and shock.
The guidance relates to the design and operation of equipment for laboratory experiments. However, it could apply also to other situations in which subjects are exposed to mechanical vibration and shock.
BS 7085 is concerned with experiments in which subjects are exposed to whole-body mechanical vibration and shock. Local vibration is not within the scope of BS 7085 but some of the general procedures may be applicable.
The experiments to which BS 7085 is applicable include those performed to determine the response of subjects to mechanical vibration and shock stimuli. BS 7085 also include those experiments in which mechanical vibration or shock are part of the environment in which other investigations are performed and experiments or tests to compare the attributes of equipment intended to alleviate the effects of mechanical vibration or shock on the user.
Who is BS 7085-Guidance for the safety of people exposed to mechanical vibration and shock for?
BS 7085 on the guidance for the safety of people exposed to mechanical vibration and shock is useful for:
- Theoretical researcher
- Health and safety departments
- Experimental equipment designers
- Experimental equipment operators
- Risk assessment authorities
- Laboratory evaluators
Why should you use BS 7085-Guidance for the safety of people exposed to mechanical vibration and shock?
People may be exposed to mechanical vibration and repeated shock intentionally during experiments to determine their response to such environments and during experiments or tests performed for other purposes. It is widely accepted that exposure to mechanical vibration and repeated shock of sufficient magnitude can cause injury or impair health.
BS 7085 provides you with guidance on the hazards of mechanical vibration and shock experiments on human test subjects, inherent risks in mechanical vibration and shock experiments, the severity of mechanical vibration or shock stimulus, extraneous risks in mechanical vibration and shock experiments, operational vibration dose values, design of equipment, operator controls and displays, practice for laboratory experiments, practice for field experiments, etc.
The guidance provided by BS 7085 assists you in reducing the chance of the subjects, or those monitoring or conducting the experiments, being exposed to undue risk of injury or impaired health arising from such exposure, or of injury attributable to the malfunction or poor operation of the equipment used to generate the mechanical vibration and shock.
With obedience and compliance to BS 7085, you can enhance safety, improve human working conditions, and counteract adverse effects on human subjects’ health due to repeated mechanical vibration and shock.
