Document Details
Name of Department/Committee : MHD 09
Document Number : MHD 09 ( 23637)
Document Title [English] : Tips for assistive products for walking Requirements and test methods Part 2: Durability of tips for crutches
Document Title [Hindi] : चलने के लिए सहायक उत्पादों के लिए युक्तियाँ - आवश्यकताएँ और परीक्षण विधियाँ - भाग 2: बैसाखी के लिए युक्तियों का स्थायित्व
Document Type : New
Language : English
Priority : 1
ICS Code : 11.180.10
Date of Project Approval : 31-03-2023
Standards to be Superseded :


Classification Details
Group : Medical and Hospital Equipments
Sub Group : Rehabilitation Equipments
Sub Sub Group : Rehabilitation equipment
Aspects : Methods of tests
Risk : Medium
Certification : Voluntary Certification
Short Commom Man's Title : Durability of tips for crutches
ITCHS Code :
Ministry :
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Sustainable development Goals :
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING
Degree of Equivalence : Identical under dual numbering
Identical/Equivalent Standards : ISO 24415-2: 2011
Organization Type: ISO

Division Council Chairperson Approval Details
Request Date: 31-01-2024
Status of Chairperson Approval: Division Council Chairperson approval uploaded by member secretary  (Click to View)
Division Council Chairperson : Chander Shekhar
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::Cross Referenced Indian Standard::
Sl. No. Is No & Year IS Title
1 IS 12572 : Part 1: 1994 Biological Evaluation of Medical Devices - Part 1 : Guidance on Selection of Tests

Sl. No. Document No Document Title
1 MHD/09 / 23482 Assistive products Classification and terminology

Sl.No. Synosis Points
1 ISO 24415-2:2011 specifies requirements and test methods for the durability of tips for crutches. ISO 24415-2:2011 is not applicable to tips manufactured for special purposes e.g. walking on ice and snow. The requirements and test method are based on tips being used with an ordinary gait on dry and flat walking surfaces. ISO 24415-2 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 173, Assistive products for persons with disability. ISO 24415 consists of the following parts, under the general title Tips for assistive products for walking — Requirements and test methods: • — Part 1: Friction of tips • — Part 2: Durability of tips for crutches
2 The characteristics of tips attached to the bottom of assistive products for walking are essential to ensuring user safety. The tips are continuously and repeatedly subjected to load and friction while walking; durability against this repeated load is important both for safety and for cost effectiveness. Tips are used on many different assistive products for walking, including canes, walking sticks, crutches, walking frames, rollators, and walking tables. They are produced in many different sizes and are made of many different materials, depending on the sort of assistive products for walking to which they are applied. A variety of bottom shapes are available on the market for the many kinds of assistive products for walking. Generally, durability of rubber is estimated based on a wearing resistance test using test pieces rather than finished goods. However, tips for assistive products for walking are used in several different ways, therefore it is favorable to perform the test on man

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