ASABE Revises Safety Standard for Front-End Loaders

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has completed a revision to the front-end loader safety standard. The revised standard, ANSI/ASAE S355.4, Safety Practices for Agricultural Front-End Loaders, was revised to clarify normal operation and travel of the loader, loader arm position during transport and travel locks. References for the document were also revised.

A copy of the document can be ordered by contacting ASABE headquarters directly at: martin@asabe.org. ASABE members and those with site-license privileges to the ASABE online Technical Library, at ASABE.org, can view an electronic copy of the standard in about six weeks.

For information on this or any other ASABE standard, contact Scott Cedarquist at ASABE (269) 932-7031 or by email at cedarq@asabe.org. A current listing of all ASABE standards projects can be found on the ASABE web site at ASABE.org/standards/proposed.html. ◆