Standard on Ag Tractor Instructional Seats is adopted by ASABE.
Press Release Summary:
The ASABE document, ANSI/ASABE AD23205:2006, Agricultural tractors - Instructional seats, replaces ASABE standard ANSI/ASAE S574. With minor modifications, document covers self-propelled machinery for agriculture and specifies updated seat belt requirements. Adoption further harmonizes national and international standardization, a goal that facilitates manufacturing, safety advancements, and product marketing worldwide.
Original Press Release:
ASABE Adopts International Standard on Ag Tractor Instructional Seats
ST JOSEPH, MICHIGAN- The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has adopted with deviations ISO 23205:2006, Agricultural tractors - Instructional seats.
The ASABE document, ANSI/ASABE AD23205:2006, Agricultural tractors - Instructional seats, replaces ASABE standard ANSI/ASAE S574. Instructional Seat for Agricultural Tractors, which was used as the basis for ISO 23205. This adoption includes some minor modifications to the ISO document. For example, the ASABE document covers self-propelled machinery for agriculture and specifies updated seat belt requirements.
The adoption further harmonizes national and international standardization, a goal that facilitates manufacturing, safety advancements and product marketing worldwide.
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 www.asabe.org , can obtain an electronic copy of the standard in about 4 weeks.
ASABE is recognized worldwide as a standards developing organization for food, agricultural, and biological systems, with more than 225 standards currently in publication. Conformance to ASABE standards is voluntary, except where required by state, provincial, or other governmental requirements, and the documents are developed by consensus in accordance with procedures approved by the American National Standards Institute. For information on this or any other ASABE standard, contact Scott Cedarquist at ASABE, 269-932-7031, 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 .
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Founded in 1907 and headquartered in St Joseph, Michigan, ASABE comprises 9,000 members from more than 100 countries. For further information about the Society, or for an electronic copy of this news release, contact Dolores Landeck at ASABE, 269-932-7039, landeck@asabe.org.
