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CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 training

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Josh and Mark recently attended training on CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 (PDF, 400kb) - Guidelines for standards developer to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities.

Guide 6, which is the European equivalent of the ISO/IEC Guide 71, provides a framework and guidance on when and how to bring information about the needs of older people and people with disabilities into the process of creating technical standards for products and services. This could be anything from telephones to child seats to public toilets.

We believe Guide 6 offers a very useful structure for identifying issues of relevance to people with disabilities and how they relate to any standard that is being developed. It would be useful for developing not only international standards, but any type of standard for any product or service.

The training, held in Madrid, was provided by the Stand4All project. Stand4all will be providing the same training in other locations in future, including London in January 2010. We would recommend it to anyone with an interest in standardisation and how to get the needs of older people and people with disabilities taken into account. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.