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a a <br />"orton <br />EMERGENCY VEHICLES <br />It's All About, Safety - SAE J3026 <br />Testing to SAE J3026 is about safety and not just making an untested claim. <br />Background <br />For the last several years the ambulance industry along with NIOSH have been working together to <br />develop test standards to improve ambulance safety. Working with SAE International, SAE. J3026 was <br />released in August of 2014. This SAE Recommended Practice was developed in support of the ambulance <br />industry's need to apply science to the design and testing of the occupant seating and occupant restraint <br />systems for personnel being transported in the patient compartment of an ambulance. This SAE Standard <br />has been adopted by several agencies including GSA (KKK-A-1822F), CAAS (GVS v.1.0), and NFPA <br />(1917 2016 Edition) with the recognition this Standard improves the safety of the people being transported <br />in the patient compartment. <br />No manufacturer has the ability to self -certify to SAE J3026, as this needs to be done in a test facility <br />capable of performing sled testing on a completed assembly. The assembly must include seating, seat <br />belts, walls, cabinets, and padding that the ADT will be making contact so injury values can be recorded. <br />Ask for a statement from a third -party testing facility that the manufacturer has met the requirements of <br />SAE J3026. <br />Photos from early NIOSH testing videos <br />