It supplements ISO 10218 rather than replacing it. Its best-known content is a table of biomechanical limits per body region, derived from pain-onset studies, giving maximum contact forces and pressures for transient (brief impact) and quasi-static (clamping) contact.
Integrators use those values to decide whether a planned cobot application is acceptable, and verify them by measuring real collisions with an instrumented force and pressure gauge at the points where contact could occur.
It also gives guidance on speed and separation monitoring, including how to compute the protective separation distance from robot speed, human approach speed and stopping time.
