What is ISO 3691-2 - Safety requirements and verification of Self-propelled variable-reach trucks about?
ISO 3691-2 gives safety requirements and the means for their verification for self-propelled industrial variable-reach trucks and variable-reach container handlers/reach stackers as defined in ISO 5053-1 (hereafter referred to as trucks), equipped with forks or integral load-handling devices for normal industrial duties (e.g., fork arms or means, such as spreaders, for handling containers).
Note 1: ISO 3691-2 is not applicable to
- Rough-terrain variable-reach trucks
- Rough-terrain variable-reach trucks for handling containers
- Machines designed primarily for earth-moving (e.g., loaders and dozers), even when their buckets and blades are replaced with forks
- Machines from which the load can swing freely in all directions
Note 2: For the purposes of ISO 3691-2, fork arms and integrated attachments are considered to be a part of the truck, whereas attachments/equipment mounted on the load carrier or on the fork arms which are removable by the user are not. Nevertheless, requirements for such attachments are also given by the document.
Note 3: ISO 3691-2 does not establish requirements for hazards that can occur
- During construction
- When using trucks on public roads
- When operating in potentially explosive atmospheres, or
- When lifting persons
Who is ISO 3691-2 - Safety requirements and verification of Self-propelled variable-reach trucks for?
ISO 3691-2 on safety requirements and verification of self-propelled variable-reach trucks is useful for:
- Crane manufacturers
- Crane operators
- Safety regulatory organizations
- Crane servicemen
Why should you use ISO 3691-2 - Safety requirements and verification of Self-propelled variable-reach trucks?
The ISO 3691 series of standards covers safety requirements and their verification for industrial trucks as defined in ISO 5053-1.
The aim of ISO 3691-2 is to eliminate the risk of accidents throughout the foreseeable lifetime of the machinery, including the phases of assembling and dismantling where risks of accidents could also arise from the foreseeable abnormal situations.
ISO 3691-2 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, or hazardous events, as listed in Annex B, with the exception of the following, relevant to the applicable machines when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
Industrial trucks need to be designed to prevent foreseeable misuse wherever possible if such would engender risk. In other cases, the instructions will need to draw the user’s attention to ways shown by experience in which the machinery ought not to be used.
ISO 3691-2 does not repeat all the technical rules which are state-of-the-art and which are applicable to the material used to construct the industrial truck.