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This part of ISO 3691 gives safety requirements and the meansfor their verification for self-propelled industrial variable-reachtrucks and variable-reach container handlers/reach stackers asdefined in ISO 5053-1 (hereafter referred to as trucks), equippedwith forks or integral load-handling devices for normal industrialduties (e.g. fork arms or means, such as spreaders, for handlingcontainers). It is not applicable to ? rough-terrain variable-reachtrucks, ? rough-terrain variable-reach trucks for handlingcontainers, ? machines designed primarily for earth-moving (e.g.loaders and dozers), even when their buckets and blades arereplaced with forks, ? machines from which the load can swingfreely in all directions. For the purposes of this part of ISO3691, fork arms and integrated attachments are considered to be apart of the truck, whereas attachments/equipment mounted on theload carrier or on the fork arms which are removable by the userare not. Nevertheless, requirements for such attachments are alsogiven by the document. Any regional requirements additional to theprovisions of this part of ISO 3691 are addressed in ISO/TS 3691-7and ISO/TS 3691-8. This part of ISO 3691 deals with all significanthazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, as listed inAnnex B, with the exception of the following, relevant to theapplicable machines when used as intended and under conditions ofmisuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. Itdoes not establish requirements for hazards that can occur ? duringconstruction, ? when using trucks on public roads, ? when operatingin potentially explosive atmospheres, or ? when liftingpersons.