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The Commission for Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) and Standardization (KAN) has the purpose of observing the standardization process and ensuring that standards makers devote sufficient attention to the needs of OH&S.

The OH&S interests of various institutions – the social partners, the State, the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) and DIN – are collectively represented in opinions on current and planned standardization projects. KAN itself is not a standardization body; its resolutions on OH&S and standardization take the form of recommendations which are based on as broad a consensus as possible of all the relevant institutions involved in OH&S.

KAN was founded in 1994, and is a project of the Association for the Promotion of Occupational Safety in Europe (VFA). The German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) supports the financing of KAN. The members of the VFA are the German statutory accident insurance institutions. The organs of the VFA (the Executive Board and the Members' Meeting) are the same as those of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV).

Projects of KAN

 * A joint project of KAN and CIOP-PIB (Poland), DGUV (Germany), EUROGIP (France), FIOH (Finland), INRS (France) and INSST (Spain).) is EUROSHNET. EUROSHNET is an international network of occupational safety and health experts involved in standardization, testing and certification. In order to promote networking among OSH expert in Europe at a personal level, EUROSHNET organizes a European conference on a regular basis.
 * KAN has developed NoRA in cooperation with DIN Software GmbH. NoRA is a search tool for OH&S-relevant standards. It helps in the search for specific standards related to occupational health and safety.
 * In cooperation with the TU Dresden, the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau and the DGUV, KAN has had ergonomics lecture modules developed. The focus of the materials is on the ergonomics of machinery and equipment. Much of the content is also transferable to other areas.

Links

 * KAN Homepage
 * KANPraxis:
 * KANPraxis Modules: learning ergonomics
 * NoRA: searching for standards
 * KANPraxis Guide: applying anthropometric data

Publications

 * KANBrief
 * Jahresbericht 2022
 * KAN-Studies
 * Survey and evaluation of findings concerning human factors in the sphere of digital ergonomics (PDF; 5,06 MB; accessible), KAN-Study 02/2023
 * KAN-Report "Comparison of the requirements for workplace lighting in the body of official German rules and regulations and those of the German Social Accident Insurance Institutions with those in standards" (PDF; 1,42 MB; not eAccessible) KAN-Study 06/2023
 * Validated OSH-related findings concerning the non-visual effect of light upon human beings (PDF; 1,92 MB; not eAccessible) KAN-Study 08/2018
 * The contribution of OSH-related standardization to implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PDF; 1,44 MB; accessible) KAN-Study 06/2016