Deutsches Institut fur Normung e. V.

Industrial trucks - Safety requirements and verification - Part 1: Self-propelled industrial trucks, other than driverless trucks, variable-reach trucks and burden-carrier trucks (ISO 3691-1:2011)
 N EN ISO 3691-1

Annotation

This part of ISO 3691 gives safety requirements and the means for their verification for the following types of self-propelled industrial trucks (hereafter referred to as trucks), as defined in ISO 5053:

a) industrial counterbalanced trucks;

b) reach trucks with retractable mast or retractable fork arm carriage;

c) straddle trucks;

d) pallet-stacking trucks;

e) high-lift platform trucks;

f) trucks with elevating operator position up to 1 200 mm;

g) side-loading trucks (one side only);

h) lateral-stacking trucks (both sides), and lateral- and front-stacking trucks;

i) pallet trucks;

j) bidirectional and multidirectional trucks;

k) tractors with a drawbar pull up to and including 20 000 N;

l) rough-terrain counterbalanced trucks;

m) industrial trucks powered by battery, diesel, gasoline or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas).

NOTE 1 Trucks powered by CNG (compressed natural gas) are not dealt with. It is intended that CNG and other power sources be addressed in future revisions of this part of ISO 3691.