This part of ISO 8662 specifies a laboratory method for measuring the vibrations at the handles of hand-held power driven chipping hammers and riveting hammers. It is a type test procedure for es-tablishing the magnitude of vibration in the handle of a power tool operating under a specified load.
The power tools covered by this part of ISO 8662 may be electrically, pneumatically or hydraulically driven, or driven by means of an internal com-bustion engine.
It is intended that the results obtained can be used to compare different power tools or different models of the same power tool. Although the levels meas-ured are obtained in a simulated work operation they give an estimation of the levels that would be found in a real work situation.