ISO 21262:2020

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 21262
First edition
2020-05
Industrial trucks — Safety rules
for application, operation and
maintenance
Chariots de manutention — Règles de sécurité pour les applications,
l'utilisation et la maintenance
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ISO 2020
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 2
4 Basic requirements . 3
4.1 General requirements . 3
4.2 General requirements for the operator . 4
4.3 Training program . 4
4.4 Operating condition . 7
4.4.1 Travel surface . 7
4.4.2 Lighting . 7
4.4.3 Aisles and obstructions . 7
4.5 Pre-shift checks . 7
4.6 Travel requirements . 8
4.6.1 General requirements . 8
4.6.2 Driving in narrow aisles .10
4.6.3 Driving over bridge plates or dockboards .11
4.6.4 Driving in lift or elevator .11
4.6.5 Driving on slopes .11
4.6.6 Driving in containers .12
4.7 Load handling .12
4.7.1 General requirements .12
4.7.2 Picking up or depositing a load .13
4.7.3 Stacking loads .14
4.7.4 Handling of suspended and liquid loads .14
4.8 Parking the truck .15
5 Additional requirements according to truck type .15
5.1 Electric trucks .15
5.1.1 General requirement for all battery type .15
5.1.2 Requirement for flooded Lead-acid battery .16
5.1.3 Requirement for lithium ion .17
5.1.4 Requirement for fuel cell .17
5.2 IC trucks .17
5.3 Towing tractors and trucks with trailers .18
5.4 Pedestrian-controlled truck .19
5.5 Counterbalance lift trucks up to 10 000 kg capacity, side-loading trucks and
variable-reach trucks .20
5.6 Trucks with elevating operator position and trucks specifically designed to travel
with elevated loads .20
5.7 Trucks for handling containers .20
5.8 Low-lift order-picking trucks .20
5.9 Trucks operating in potentially explosive areas .21
6 Use of attachments on the truck.21
7 Transport, towing, assembly and storage of the truck .21
7.1 Transport of the truck .21
7.2 Towing of the truck .22
7.3 Assembly of the truck .22
7.4 Storage of the truck .22
8 Truck modification .23
9 Maintenance requirements .23
Annex A (informative) Special safety considerations .26
Bibliography .29
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 21262:2020(E)
Industrial trucks — Safety rules for application, operation
and maintenance
1 Scope
This document gives safety requirements for the application, operation, maintenance, transport, tow,
assembly and storage of industrial trucks (hereafter referred to as trucks) as defined in ISO 5053-1.
It applies to the following truck types:
a) counterbalance lift trucks;
b) reach trucks (with retractable mast or retractable fork arm carriage);
c) straddle trucks;
d) pallet-stacking trucks;
e) platform trucks;
f) double stackers;
g) side-loading trucks (one side only);
h) lateral-stacking trucks (both sides), and lateral- and front-stacking trucks;
i) order-picking trucks;
j) bidirectional and multidirectional trucks;
k) counterbalance container handlers;
l) articulated counterbalance lift trucks;
m) variable-reach trucks;
n) pallet trucks;
o) platform and stillage trucks;
p) tractors with a drawbar pull up to and including 20 000 N;
q) burden and personnel carriers;
r) trucks powered by battery, diesel, gasoline or gas (e.g. LPG, CNG, LNG).
Automated functions and driverless variants of the above list of trucks are also considered part of
this scope.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 3691-1, Industrial trucks — Safety requirements and verification — Part 1: Self-propelled industrial
trucks, other than driverless trucks, variable-reach trucks and burden-carrier trucks
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