Equipment makers want Cal/OSHA to change ag equipment regulation
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), an industry group representing 1,000+ manufacturers, has petitioned Cal/OSHA about making changes to a rule governing the use of highly automated agricultural equipment.
California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 3441(b), directed toward all “self-propelled equipment,” mandates that an operator remains at an operator station when the equipment is in motion. (The operator station can be located outside of the normal operator station.)