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BS EN 1459-4:2020:2021 Edition

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Rough-terrain trucks. Safety requirements and verification – Additional requirements for variable-reach trucks handling freely suspended loads

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BSI 2021 26
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This document specifies the safety requirements and means of verification in addition to EN 1459?1:2017+A1:2020 and EN 1459-2:2015+A1:2018 as applicable, for rough-terrain variable-reach trucks (hereafter referred to as trucks) designed and intended for handling suspended loads which can swing freely in one or more directions. It is applicable to trucks covered by EN 1459?1:2017+A1:2020 and EN 1459-2:2015+A1:2018.

This document does not apply to:

  1. the lifting of suspended loads which by design of the load or the lifting attachments does not allow the load to swing freely in any direction;

  2. the handling of flexible intermediate bulk containers, as defined in ISO 21898:2004 , carried under the forks of the truck or with attachments intended for this purpose;

  3. any attachments / means used for lifting personnel;

  4. lifting accessories;

  5. freight container handling trucks;

  6. mobile cranes (covered by EN 13000:2010+A1:2014 ).

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, related to trucks handling a freely suspended load, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Annex A).

This document does not deal with load limiter for attachments.

This document is not applicable to rough-terrain variable-reach trucks designed and intended for handling suspended loads manufactured before the date of its publication.

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
8 3 Terms and definitions
9 4 Safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures
4.1 General
4.1.1 Context
4.1.2 Specific relation to EN 1459-1 and EN 1459-2
10 4.2 Stability
4.2.1 Load chart for suspended load lifting attachment(s)
4.3 Connection point for lifting accessories
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Maximum rated load lifting capacity
4.3.3 Strength of the connection point for lifting accessories
4.4 Dynamic structural integrity
5 Verification of safety requirements and/or protective/risk reduction measures
5.1 Tests for trucks and for lifting attachments
11 5.2 Dynamic structural test
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 General test set up
12 5.2.3 Test procedure
13 5.2.4 Acceptance criteria
5.3 Additional requirements for pick and carry
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Lateral test procedure
14 5.3.3 Longitudinal stability by test loading
5.3.4 Acceptance criteria
15 5.4 Strength tests for the connection point for lifting accessories
6 Information for use
6.1 General
6.2 Instruction handbook
16 6.3 Load chart
6.3.1 Load chart for lifting attachments
6.3.2 Load chart for connection point for lifting accessories
6.3.3 Marking
17 Annex A (informative)List of significant hazards
19 Annex ZA (informative)Relationship between this European Standard and the Essential Requirements of EU Directive 2006/42/EC on machinery
BS EN 1459-4:2020
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