ISO Standards for Seat Testing and Seat Usage in Various Transport Sectors
The marine industry is taking its first steps towards standard tests for shock and vibration protection seating, but boats are not the only sector that risks injuring people by shaking them around.
The off-road vehicle industry recognised this issue decades ago and now has an interlocking set of test standards on seat performance.
The aerospace sector started even sooner with the work by Martin Baker in the 1940s setting minimum standards for aircraft ejection seats and car manufacturers have always been concerned with giving the prospective buyer a comfortable place to sit.
This presentation will explain some of the history of seat testing and will highlight some of the lessons that need not be re-learned.
Dr Tom Gunston - Whole Body Vibration Panel, British Standards Institute
Dr. Gunston has approximately 20 years’ experience in the field of human exposure to whole-body vibration and shock with particular specialism in power tools, high speed marine craft and off-road vehicles.
He carried out research into suspension seat performance at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research and then worked for two years at QinetiQ assessing shock and vibration exposure on land, sea and air vehicles.
He now splits his work between the construction and high speed marine sectors. He is currently working for the RNLI and the MOD on shock and vibration exposure and seating performance and has worked for a range of marine craft operators, builders and seating suppliers.
He is convenor of the ISO standards group developing the marine seating test standard and chair of the British Standards panel on whole-body vibration.
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