NF EN ISO 3691-4

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NF EN ISO 3691-4

NF EN ISO 3691-4

May 2020

Standard Cancelled

Industrial trucks - Safety requirements and verification - Part 4 : driverless industrial trucks and their systems

This document specifies safety requirements and the means for their verification for driverless industrial trucks (hereafter referred to as trucks) and their systems. Examples of driverless industrial trucks (trucks of ISO 5053-1) can also be known as: "automated guided vehicle", "autonomous mobile robot", "bots", "automated guided cart", "tunnel tugger", "under cart", etc. This document also contains requirements for driverless industrial trucks which are provided with: — automatic modes which either require operators' action(s) to initiate or enable such automatic operations; — the capability to transport one or more riders (which are neither considered as drivers nor as operators); — additional manual modes which allow operators to operate the truck manually; or — a maintenance mode which allows manual operation of truck functions for maintenance reasons. It is not applicable to trucks solely guided by mechanical means (rails, guides, etc.) or to remotely controlled trucks, which are not considered to be driverless trucks. For the purposes of this document, a driverless industrial truck is a powered truck, which is designed to operate automatically. A driverless truck system comprises the control system, which can be part of the truck and/or separate from it, guidance means and power system. Requirements for power sources are not covered in this document. The condition of the operating zone has a significant effect on the safe operation of the driverless industrial truck. The preparations of the operating zone to eliminate the associated hazards are specified in Annex A. This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events during all phases of the life of the truck (ISO 12100:2010, 5.4), as listed in Annex B, relevant to the applicable machines when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. It does not give requirements for additional hazards that can occur: — during operation in severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer applications, strong magnetic fields); — during operation in nuclear environments; — from trucks intended to operate in public zones (in particular ISO 13482); — during operation on a public road; — during operation in potentially explosive environments; — during operation in military applications; — during operation with specific hygienic requirements; — during operation in ionizing radiation environments; — during the transportation of (a) person(s) other than (the) intended rider(s); — when handling loads the nature of which can lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials); — for rider positions with elevation function higher than 1 200 mm from the floor/ground to the platform floor. This document does not contain safety requirements for trailer(s) being towed behind a truck. This document does not contain safety requirements for elevated operator trucks. This document is not applicable to trucks manufactured before the date of its publication.

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Publication date

May 2020

Number of pages

95 p.

Reference

NF EN ISO 3691-4

ICS Codes

53.060 Industrial trucks

Classification index

H96-300-4

Print number

International kinship

ISO 3691-4:2020

European kinship

EN ISO 3691-4:2020

Sumary

Industrial trucks - Safety requirements and verification - Part 4 : driverless industrial trucks and their systems

This document specifies safety requirements and the means for their verification for driverless industrial trucks (hereafter referred to as trucks) and their systems.

Examples of driverless industrial trucks (trucks of ISO 5053-1) can also be known as: "automated guided vehicle", "autonomous mobile robot", "bots", "automated guided cart", "tunnel tugger", "under cart", etc.

This document also contains requirements for driverless industrial trucks which are provided with:

— automatic modes which either require operators' action(s) to initiate or enable such automatic operations;

— the capability to transport one or more riders (which are neither considered as drivers nor as operators);

— additional manual modes which allow operators to operate the truck manually; or

— a maintenance mode which allows manual operation of truck functions for maintenance reasons.

It is not applicable to trucks solely guided by mechanical means (rails, guides, etc.) or to remotely controlled trucks, which are not considered to be driverless trucks.

For the purposes of this document, a driverless industrial truck is a powered truck, which is designed to operate automatically. A driverless truck system comprises the control system, which can be part of the truck and/or separate from it, guidance means and power system. Requirements for power sources are not covered in this document.

The condition of the operating zone has a significant effect on the safe operation of the driverless industrial truck. The preparations of the operating zone to eliminate the associated hazards are specified in Annex A.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events during all phases of the life of the truck (ISO 12100:2010, 5.4), as listed in Annex B, relevant to the applicable machines when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.

It does not give requirements for additional hazards that can occur:

— during operation in severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer applications, strong magnetic fields);

— during operation in nuclear environments;

— from trucks intended to operate in public zones (in particular ISO 13482);

— during operation on a public road;

— during operation in potentially explosive environments;

— during operation in military applications;

— during operation with specific hygienic requirements;

— during operation in ionizing radiation environments;

— during the transportation of (a) person(s) other than (the) intended rider(s);

— when handling loads the nature of which can lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials);

— for rider positions with elevation function higher than 1 200 mm from the floor/ground to the platform floor.

This document does not contain safety requirements for trailer(s) being towed behind a truck.

This document does not contain safety requirements for elevated operator trucks.

This document is not applicable to trucks manufactured before the date of its publication.

Replaced standards (1)

NF EN 1525

December 1997

Standard Cancelled

Safety of industrial trucks. Driverless trucks and their systems.

Le présent document traite des risques spédfiques, susceptibles desurvenir au cours du fonctionnement et de la maintenance des chariots sans conducteur et leurs systèmes.

Standard replaced by (1)

NF EN ISO 3691-4

July 2023

Standard Current

Industrial trucks - Safety requirements and verification - Part 4 : driverless industrial trucks and their systems

This document specifies safety requirements and the means for their verification for driverless industrial trucks (hereafter referred to as trucks) and their systems. Examples of driverless industrial trucks (trucks as defined in ISO 5053‑1:2020) include: “automated guided vehicle”, “autonomous mobile robot”, “bots”, “automated guided cart”, “tunnel tugger”, “under cart”, etc. This document is also applicable to driverless industrial trucks which are provided with: — automatic modes which either require operators’ action(s) to initiate or enable such automatic operations; — the capability to transport one or more riders (which are neither considered as drivers nor as operators); — additional manual modes which allow operators to operate the truck manually; or — a maintenance mode which allows manual operation of truck functions for maintenance reasons. This document is not applicable to trucks solely guided by mechanical means (rails, guides, etc.) or to remotely-controlled trucks, which are not considered to be driverless trucks. For the purposes of this document, a driverless industrial truck is a powered truck, which is designed to operate automatically. A driverless truck system comprises the control system, which can be part of the truck and/or separate from it, guidance means and power system. Requirements for power sources are not covered in this document. The condition of the operating zone has a significant effect on the safe operation of the driverless industrial truck. The preparations of the operating zone to eliminate the associated hazards are specified in Annex A. This document is applicable to all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events during all phases of the life of the truck (ISO 12100:2010, 5.4), as listed in Annex B, relevant to the applicable machines when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. In particular, this document does not apply to significant hazards related to: — noise; — vibrations; — ionising and non-ionising radiation; — laser radiation; — sales literature (commercial documents); — declaration of vibrations transmitted by mobile machinery. It does not apply to additional hazards that can occur: — during operation in severe conditions (e.g. extreme climates, freezer applications, strong magnetic fields); — during operation in nuclear environments; — from trucks intended to operate in public zones (see in particular ISO 13482:2014); — during operation on a public road; — during operation in potentially explosive environments; — during operation in military applications; — during operation with specific hygienic requirements; — during operation in ionizing radiation environments; — during the transportation of (a) person(s) other than (the) intended rider(s); — when handling loads the nature of which can lead to dangerous situations (e.g. molten metals, acids/bases, radiating materials); — for rider positions with elevation function higher than 1 200 mm from the floor/ground to the platform floor. This document does not contain safety requirements for trailer(s) being towed behind a truck. This document does not contain safety requirements for elevated operator trucks. This document does not apply to trucks manufactured before the date of its publication.

Table of contents

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1 Domaine d'application
2 Références normatives
3 Termes et définitions
4 Exigences de sécurité et/ou mesures de prévention/réduction du risque
5 Vérification des exigences de sécurité et/ou mesures de protection
6 Informations pour l'utilisation
Annexe A Exigences pour la préparation des zones de travail
Annexe B Liste des phénomènes dangereux significatifs
Annexe C Détermination de la capacité nominale
Annexe D Opérations de transfert de charge
Annexe E Vérification des exigences essentielles de santé et de sécurité
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