Safety Standards

ISO 18497:2018 - Safety of highly automated agricultural machines

This document gives principles for the design, verification, validation and provision of information for use of a highly automated agricultural machine (HAAM). The purpose of this document is to assist in the provision of safety requirements, means of verification and information for use to ensure an appropriate level of safety for agricultural and forestry tractors and self-propelled machines with functions allowing highly automated operations. It also provides guidance on the type of information on safe working practices (including information about residual risks) to be provided by the manufacturer. This document is not applicable to forestry applications; mobile, semi-mobile or stationary machinery used for farm yard or barn operations; and operations on public roads including relevant requirements for braking and steering systems. Risks related to the communication between agricultural vehicles are also out of scope.

ISO 25119 - Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry — Safety-related parts of control systems

ISO25119 sets out general principles for the design and development of safety-related parts of control systems (SRP/CS) on tractors used in agriculture and forestry and on self-propelled ride-on machines and mounted, semi-mounted and trailed machines used in agriculture. It can also be applied to mobile municipal equipment (e.g. street-sweeping machines).

It is based on a safety life cycle, which combines the most important safety-related activities in the concept phase, during series development, at the start of production (SOP), during operation and maintenance till decommissioning.

In order to guide the designer during design, verification, and to facilitate the assessment of the achieved performance level, ISO 25119 defines an approach based on a classification of architecture with different design features and specific behaviour in case of a fault. The performance levels and categories can be applied to the control systems of all kinds of mobile machines: from simple systems (e.g. auxiliary valves) to complex systems (e.g. steer by wire), as well as to the control systems of protective equipment (e.g. interlocking devices, pressure sensitive devices).

ISO 3691-4:2020 Industrial trucks - Safety requirements and verification

ISO 3691-4:2020 outlines information about the safety of industrial trucks. Even though the standard is not applicable to all agrifood robots, it gives some interesting details about designing autonomous industrial trucks for industrial applications.

Especially interesting for many agrifood robotics applications are the parts about contactless protection equipment and velocity control. The design principles set in this standard can be applied to for many indoor applications in the agrifood sector.

ISO 10218 Robots and robotic devices

ISO 10218 outlines information about the safety for industrial robots. Even though the standard is not applicable to all agrifood robots, it can be of interest when a mobile manipuator is developed or industrial manipulators are used in an agrifood application.

Part 1 of the standard describes safety requirements for robots themselves without being integrated into a bigger assembly. Part 2 contains information about system integration requirements.