scope:

This document specifies the requirements and test procedures for 360° visibility of stand-on counterbalance trucks with a capacity up to and including 10 000 kg in accordance with ISO 5053-1 (herein after referred to as trucks) without a load and it is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 16842-1.

Where specific requirements in this document are modified from the general requirements in EN 16842-1, the requirements of this document are truck-specific and are to be used for stand-on counterbalance trucks with a capacity up to, and including, 10 000 kg.

This part of EN 16842 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, relevant to the visibility of the operator for applicable machines when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.