The top standards and directives in the field of technical documentation
Optional one-day or two-day seminar on instruction and operating manuals based on the most important standards and directives in the field of technical documentation.
Would you like to know whether your technical documentation is compliant with standards and meets statutory requirements? Would you also like to learn about how electronic documentation, in particular, is affected?
Then this event is just right for you: On the basis of EU legislative acts (directives, regulations) and national laws, the workshop focusses on the most important standards for technical documentation.
Laws and standards and include:
- Product Safety Act D/AT, Product Liability Act D/AT
- New Machinery Regulation and other EU directives/regulations
- Risk assessment EN ISO 12100:2011 for machines
- Type B and Type C safety standards
- EN IEC IEEE 82079-1:2019-05 (Ed. 2) Information for use
- EN ISO 20607:2019-10 operating manuals for machines
- ISO 26514:2022-02 software documentation
- EN ISO 9241 series of standards on the ergonomics of human-system interaction
- IEC EN 301 549 V3.2.1 (2021-03) Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services
- Standards related to safety labels and warnings ISO 3864
- ANSI Z535
- EN ISO 7010 safety signs
- standards for plain, simple and controlled language (e.g. ISO 24495-1:2023 plain language)
- translations (EN ISO 17100 and ISO 5060)
- Meta data standards (iiRDS, VDI 2770)
Based on example documents (bring your examples with you!), you will analyse these requirements using the 82079 checklist developed by our “standards whisperer” Dieter Gust. The checklist will be provided to you free of charge as a Word document in the workshop. And you will receive the current 100-page itl standards guide!
Only the overall picture gives you the framework you need for good, standards-compliant technical documentation that protects you from liability.
- What is the current status of the most important standards and directives for technical writers?
- Why can market competitors institute legal proceedings against others for poor or missing instructions?
- Minimalism versus completeness: what does this mean?
- How standardised is “readability”?
- What are the specifications for media selection and design?
- Nothing new or lots of new things to know about warnings?
- Are there normative specifications for information structuring?
- What do liability-proof warnings look like?
- What are the requirements for the overall process of document creation and document distribution?
