Brochures
Whole-body vibration in agriculture
Whole body vibration is caused by vibration transmitted through the seat or the feet by workplace machines and vehicles. Exposure to high levels of whole-body vibration can present risks to health and safety and are reported to cause or aggravate back injuries. The risks are greatest when the v ...
The Challenge
Requirements governing the use of self propelled agricultural machinery on the road are still a non-harmonised area in the EU with many of the 27 Member States having their own rules for the design and conformity assessment of machines. This results in a differing level of road safety ...
Engine Emission directive- T(C)2 & T(C)4.1 dela
he Challenge
Narrow tractors and high clearance tractors (categories T2/C2 and T4.1/C4.1 according to Directive 2003/37/EC) are dedicated machines that are specifically developed for fruit and vine cultivations requiring the capacity of the tractors to operate in extremely restricted spaces maintain ...
Agricultural Tractors out of the Machinery Directive
The Challenge
Tractors are excluded from the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC. At the time the new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC was adopted, the Tractor Directive did not deal with all the risks associated with the use of tractors. In order to ensure that all relevant risks were covered, agricultural ...
Harmonization and Unification for Sprayers
The Challenge
Sprayers or more general pesticide application equipment are included in the Machinery Directive, and have always been, under the generic definition of ‘machinery’. However it is also a machine that distributes pesticides. Not only machine safety but also environmental safety requi ...