IS 15640 : 2006 /ISO 15794 : 2001 Bi-directional and Multi-Directional Fork-Lift Trucks - Stability Tests

National Foreword

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO 15794 : 2001 �Bi-directional and multi-directional forklifttrucks - Stability tests� issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adoptedby the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Transport Tractors, Trailers and IndustrialTrucks Sectional Committee and approval of the Transport Engineering Division Council.

The text of the ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standardwithout deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards.Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words �International Standard� appear referring to this standard, they shouldbe read as �Indian Standard�.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the currentpractice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

In this adopted standard, reference appears to certain International Standards for which Indian Standardsalso exist. The corresponding Indian Standards which are to be substituted in their places are listedbelow along with their degree of equivalence for the editions indicated: