scope:

NEN-ISO 15818 specifies the performance requirements for the lifting and tying-down attachment points of earth-moving machinery as defined in ISO 6165. This document also applies to components and subassemblies of earth-moving machinery which the manufacturer intends to be lifted or tied down separately by using lifting or tying-down attachment points. This document applies to the following modes of transport: - lifting with cranes (e.g. mobile cranes, gantry cranes); - road transport (e.g. truck, trailer); - rail transport, including combined transport (e.g. wagons with containers, swap-bodies, semi-trailers, trucks); - sea transport. It is not applicable to - airlift or transport by air, or - rail transport of machines on wagons subject to shunting. This document does not include requirements for attaching the machine to a platform of the rail car, boat, etc., from which the machine is intended to work.