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

Where specific requirements in this part are modified from the general requirements in EN 16842-1, the requirements of this part are truck specific and to be used for sit-on self-propelled industrial variable-reach 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.

This document does not apply to rough-terrain variable-reach trucks (see EN 15830).