This paper aims at providing a basic state-of-the-art of standards and guidelines, as well as laboratory and field studies dealing with whole-body vibration perception thresholds, and comparative analysis is given. Mechanisms of vibration perception, absolute thresholds of perception, difference thresholds and descriptors are introduced. The effects of frequency, posture, direction, duration, gender, age and noise on whole-body vibration perception thresholds are reviewed. And the problems requiring further investigation are proposed.