Design Analysis for Drop Test for Overhead Guard of a Fork Lift

The importance of forklift is very high in material handling procedures. Fork lifts are very commonly used in warehouse, farms, shipping yards, construction sites for lifting various objects, assemblies and even liquids filled tanks. The safety of the operator is the most important factor to be considered while designing of the forklift. The operator has to be safe inside the guard cage. Different criteria can be defined for testing of the forklift guard cage. The majority of the accidents occur because of overhead falling on the operator. Hence a protective structure is must for any material handling machinery. Overhead guard is a critical component in the Fork Lift Truck, has to meet the strict requirements of deformations as per the ISO standards for driving safety. In this paper the review of various white papers and codes is done to find the procedure for designing the safe and optimized protective structure also called as overhead guard.