ASME B56.5

Description / Abstract: 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 automated functions of manned industrial vehicles. 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.

This Standard applies to guided industrial vehicles in automatic mode of operation in nonrestricted areas. Portions of this Standard, when designated, also apply to semiautomatic, manual, and maintenance modes and restricted areas of vehicle operation. It is recognized that restricted areas may exist, and require the user and/or manufacturer to determine appropriate safety provisions.

Portions of this Standard, when designated, also apply to automated functions of manned industrial vehicles.

This Standard does not apply to passenger-carrying vehicles.