ANNEXMINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
(Articles 4 and 5)
3.OPERATOR/COMPUTER INTERFACE
In designing, selecting, commissioning and modifying software, and in designing tasks using display screen equipment, the employer shall take into account the following principles:
- (a)
software must be suitable for the task;
- (b)
software must be easy to use and, where appropriate, adaptable to the operator’s level of knowledge or experience; no quantitative or qualitative checking facility may be used without the knowledge of the workers;
- (c)
systems must provide feedback to workers on their performance;
- (d)
systems must display information in a format and at a pace which are adapted to operators;
- (e)
the principles of software ergonomics must be applied, in particular to human data processing.