ABSTRACT
In the assessment of vibration in living environment, it may be a primary concern to mitigate effects of vibration on people. Understanding of the human perception thresholds of whole-body vibration may be one of important information in the assessment of vibration in living environment. The evaluation methods of human exposure to vibration in relation to living environment currently defined in international standards and Japanese standards were reviewed first in the present paper. Major differences in the methods defined in those standards were identified. The experimental data of the perception threshold of whole-body vibration were then collected from the previous studies refereed to in the international standards. Finally, tentative evaluations of the perception threshold obtained by the methods defined in the standards were compared with the experimental data collected so as to illustrate the validity of the evaluation methods given in the standards.
