scope:

This International Standard establishes a consistent and reproducible means of evaluating the load-carrying characteristics of Roll-Over Protective Structures (ROPS) under static loading, and prescribes performance requirements for a representative specimen under such loading.

It applies to the following seated design operator-controlled machines as defined in ISO 6165:

- crawler tractors and loaders;

- graders;

- wheeled loaders and wheeled tractors and their modified versions used for rolling or compacting, dozer-equipped wheeled tractors, skid-steer loaders and backhoe loaders;

- wheeled industrial tractors;

- the tractor portion (prime mover), of tractor scrapers, water wagons, articulated steer dumpers, bottom-dump wagons, side-dump wagons, rear-dump wagons and towed fifth-wheel attachments;

- rollers and compactors;

- rigid frame dumpers.