Standard for Safety for Industrial Trucks, Internal Combustion Engine-Powered

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL)
Standards Development Organisation:
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
ANSI/CAN/UL 558
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Domestic
Standard Sub-Type
Joint Canada-U.S. National Standard
Standard Development Activity:
New Edition
ICS code(s):
53.060
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

These requirements cover the fire safety aspects of industrial trucks with internal-combustion engines, such as tractors, platform-lift trucks, fork-lift trucks, and other specialized vehicles for industrial use.

These requirements do not cover other possible safety aspects of such equipment. These requirements do not cover farm or road vehicles or automotive vehicles for highway use.

The Fire Safety Standard for Powered Industrial Trucks Including Type Designations, Areas of Use, Conversions, Maintenance, and Operations, NFPA 505, identifies internal combustion engine powered industrial trucks as follows:

Types G, D, LP, CN, G/CN, and G/LP – A unit powered by gasoline (G), diesel (D), LP-gas (LP), compressed natural gas (CN), either gasoline or compressed natural gas (G/CN), or either gasoline or liquefied petroleum gas (G/LP), that has minimum acceptable safeguards against inherent fire hazards.

Types GS, DS, LPS, CNS, GS/CNS, and GS/LPS – A unit powered by gasoline (GS), diesel (DS), LP-gas (LPS), compressed natural gas (CNS), either gasoline or compressed natural gas (GS/CNS), or either gasoline or liquefied petroleum gas (GS/LPS) that, in addition to meeting all the requirements for Types G, D, LP, CN, G/CN, and G/LP, is provided with additional safeguards to the exhaust, fuel and electric systems.

Type DY – A diesel-powered unit that has all the safeguards of Type DS units and, in addition, any electric equipment is completely enclosed and equipped with temperature limitation features.

Project need:

Some stakeholders have requested that ULC/ORD 558 along with UL 558 be used as seed documents to create a Joint Canada/US standard. Manufacturers will benefit from reduced administrative burden when product only needs to be tested to a single standard. Regulators will benefit from reduced overlap in standards requirements.

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