ITSDF: Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation

ITSDF, the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation, was formed in 2005 to administer the B56 Standards Committee. The B56 Standards Committee’s scope is the establishment of safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance, as well as standardization relating to principal dimensions to facilitate interchangeability, and the establishment of test methods and test procedures for powered and non-powered industrial trucks (not including vehicles intended primarily for earth-moving or over-the-road hauling) and wheels and casters. Standards from ITSDF are available both individually, directly through the ANSI webstore, and as part of a Standards Subscription. If you or your organization are interested in easy, managed, online access to standards that can be shared, a Standards Subscription may be what you need - please contact us at: [email protected] or 1-212-642-4980 or Request Proposal Price.

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ANSI/ITSDF B56.1-2020

Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks

This Standard is one of a series that have been formulated with the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation as Sponsor in accordance with the Accredited Organization method, the procedures accredited by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., and the following scope: Establishment of the safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance; standardization relating to principal dimensions to facilitate interchangeability, test methods, and test procedures of powered and nonpowered industrial trucks (not including vehicles intended primarily for earth moving or over-the-road hauling); and maintenance of liaison with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in all matters pertaining to powered and nonpowered industrial trucks.

ANSI/ITSDF B56.5-2024

Safety Standard for Driverless, Automatic Guided Industrial Vehicles and Automated Functions of Manned Industrial Vehicles

This Standard defines the safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance of powered, not mechanically restrained, unmanned automatic guided industrial vehicles and the system of which the vehicles are a part. It also applies to vehicles originally designed to operate exclusively in a manned mode but which are subsequently modified to operate in an unmanned, automatic mode, or in a semiautomatic, manual, or maintenance mode.

ANSI/ITSDF B56.6-2021

Safety Standard for Rough Terrain Forklift Trucks

This Standard defines the safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance of rough terrain forklift trucks. These trucks are intended for operation on unimproved natural terrain as well as the disturbed terrain of construction sites.

ANSI/ITSDF B56.1-2020

Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks

This Standard is one of a series that have been formulated with the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation as Sponsor in accordance with the Accredited Organization method, the procedures accredited by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., and the following scope: Establishment of the safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance; standardization relating to principal dimensions to facilitate interchangeability, test methods, and test procedures of powered and nonpowered industrial trucks (not including vehicles intended primarily for earth moving or over-the-road hauling); and maintenance of liaison with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in all matters pertaining to powered and nonpowered industrial trucks.

ANSI/ITSDF B56.14-2020

Safety Standard for Vehicle Mounted Forklift Trucks

This Standard defines the safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance of industrial and rough terrain vehicle mounted forklifts controlled by a riding operator

ANSI/ITSDF B56.1-2020

Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks

This Standard is one of a series that have been formulated with the Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation as Sponsor in accordance with the Accredited Organization method, the procedures accredited by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., and the following scope: Establishment of the safety requirements relating to the elements of design, operation, and maintenance; standardization relating to principal dimensions to facilitate interchangeability, test methods, and test procedures of powered and nonpowered industrial trucks (not including vehicles intended primarily for earth moving or over-the-road hauling); and maintenance of liaison with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in all matters pertaining to powered and nonpowered industrial trucks.