"Employees have an interest in a safe and healthy working environment ; they expect machinery and tools, working materials and the working environment, work procedures and the work activity itself not only not to be dangerous to them, but to actually promote their interests in the positive (or preventive) sense, i.e., to be humane. Their interest is addressed in many ways by standardization, as standards first and foremost specify the characteristics of products. The content or failings of individual standardization projects or areas of standardization activity are therefore of great consequence for the interests of employees. ..."

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