Bogumił Zięba announced on LinkedIn the article “5 things you did not know about AGV safety (but the auditor already does)”, published in the magazine “Logistyka”. The publication highlights why a vehicle specification and declaration of conformity alone do not describe the safety of the complete installation.
Applying the standard to the working environment
AGV safety should never be reduced to sensors and emergency stops alone. ISO 3691-4 becomes useful only when it is linked to the actual traffic model, site layout, interaction points and mixed-traffic scenarios of a given plant or warehouse.
That is why real deployments require more than a compliance declaration. They require decisions about speed profiles, risk zones, operator behavior and the way automated vehicles coexist with manual transport.
The main lesson is simple: the standard is the framework, but safety performance depends on how well the project team translates it into the real environment.
The practical design also covers route crossings, vehicle response logic and escalation of hazardous situations. Maintenance, production, logistics and the integrator share responsibility for translating these decisions into daily operation, which is particularly useful to understand before a first deployment.
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