IS 18808 : 2025 Protective Helmet for Users of Bicycles, Skateboards and Roller Skates - Specification
1 SCOPE
1.1 This standard covers the requirements regarding the material, construction, workmanship, finish, mass, and performance for helmets worn by the users of bicycles, skateboards, and roller skates.
1.2 The helmets covered in this standard can also be used when children are accompanied by adult while traveling on motorcycle at speeds not exceeding 40 km/h.
1.3 This standard covers the requirements and corresponding methods of test as follows:
a) Construction, including field of vision;
b) Shock absorbing properties;
c) Retention system properties, including chin strap and fastening devices; and
d) Marking information.
2 REFERENCES
The standards given below contain provisions which through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of these standards:
| IS No. | Title |
| IS 7692 : 2024 | Headforms for testing of helmets - Specification (second revision) |
| IS 17863 | Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources: |
| (Part 1) : 2022/ISO 4892-1 : 2016 | General guidance |
| (Part 2) : 2022/ISO 4892-2 : 2013 | Xenon-arc lamps< |
| (Part 3) : 2022/ISO 4892-3 : 2016 | Fluorescent UV lamps |