Reaffirmed 2024

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Third Revision) which is identical with ISO 445 : 2013 ‘Pallets for materials handling — Vocabulary’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Transport Packages, Packaging Codes, Freight Containers and Pallets Sectional Committee and approval of the Transport Engineering Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 1967 and subsequently revised in 1976 and 2005. First revision of this standard was identical with lSO/R 445 : 1965 ‘Vocabulary of terms relating to pallets’.

The second revision of this standard was identical with ISO 445 : 1996. The third revision of this standard has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of ISO 445 : 2013.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies 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 should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

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