This International Standard gives definitions and specifies the characteristics of different guards and shields to protect personnel from accidental hazards which may arise during operation and servicing of earth-moving machines due to: - mechanical causes; - thermal causes; - chemical causes; - electrical causes. This International Standard is intended as a guide and covers both rubber-tyred and track-type off-highway earth-moving machinery of all sizes. ROPS*, FOPS* and cabs are excluded from this International Standard. * See ISO 3164.
Registration number (WIID)
5516
Scope
This International Standard gives definitions and specifies the characteristics of different guards and shields to protect personnel from accidental hazards which may arise during operation and servicing of earth-moving machines due to: - mechanical causes; - thermal causes; - chemical causes; - electrical causes. This International Standard is intended as a guide and covers both rubber-tyred and track-type off-highway earth-moving machinery of all sizes. ROPS*, FOPS* and cabs are excluded from this International Standard. * See ISO 3164.
