July 9, 2018 EPA Foregoes Enforcing Glider Emissions Regs The New York Times reports that the EPA will not hold glider kit manufacturers to the previously passed restriction of building only 300 kits per year. According to the EPA...
July 5, 2018 OSHA Extends Enforcement Date of Certain Provisions of the Beryllium Standard OSHA has announced a delay in enforcing certain requirements of the final rule on occupational exposure to beryllium in general industry. These requirements will not be enforced...
June 26, 2018 EPA Considers Changes to Smog Rules as Trump Seeks More Reg Rollbacks The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday an intention to review the country’s ground-level smog standard, which could take several years before any changes take...
June 16, 2018 OSHA Extends Public Comment Period for Crane Operator Certification Rule OSHA is extending the public comment period for its proposed rule on crane operator certification through July 5, 2018. The 15-day extension gives stakeholders more time to...
June 13, 2018 Bipartisan Bill Delays Hours of Service and ELD Enforcement for Reform Livestock haulers could get further relief from the hours of service (HOS) and Electronic Logging Device (ELD) regulations if a newly proposed bipartisan bill makes its way...
June 11, 2018 Silica Standard Kicks in June 23 The standard establishes a new 8-hour time-weighted average permissible exposure limit, action level, and associated ancillary requirements. During the first 30 days of...
June 11, 2018 OSHA Issues Memorandum Outlining Enforcement of Silica Standard The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a memorandum on Friday outlining the initial enforcement of the standard for...
June 11, 2018 U.S. Department of Labor Issues Memorandum Outlining Enforcement of Silica Standard for General Industry, Maritime The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued a memorandum outlining the initial enforcement of the standard for respirable...
June 8, 2018 10 OSHA Inspection FAQs Two retired OSHA officers talk about what prompts and occurs during an OSHA inspection Two retired Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officers shared their...
May 25, 2018 OSHA Proposes Rule to Ensure Crane Operators Are Qualified to Safely Operate Equipment A change to the categories of certifications for crane operators would ensure more operators are able to meet the requirement The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
August 8, 2016 10 Social Media Tips for Your Next Trade Show Social media doesn’t care whether your company is worth $100 billion dollars or $100. It doesn’t care whether you’ve been in business for 100 years or one month. With the right...
July 17, 2017 Top 10 Tips for Successful Exhibiting By Candy Adams, The Booth Mom® | As a trade show exhibit junkie with a 25-year addiction, I’ve been asked to share my best advice to maximize exhibitors’ show results. Here are...
July 17, 2017 The Future of Data Sharing and Equipment Rental How to better optimize the relationship between the companies involved in the renting of construction equipment and the data associated with such transactions were the topics of...
June 22, 2016 U.S. DOT Adopts Lighting & Marking Standard for Ag Equipment The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) finally published its rule governing lighting and marking for agricultural equipment on Wednesday after almost four full years of...
October 19, 2017 How Smart Farms Are Making the Case for Rural Broadband By Dusty Weis, Association of Equipment ManufacturersNew Smart Farm technologies can give America’s growers the ability to monitor crop conditions in real time, respond to...
May 26, 2016 Ag Braking Requirements for North America: Review Continues Changes in ag vehicle braking requirements for North America are being considered.The standard containing braking requirements for towed and towing agricultural field equipment...
September 21, 2017 Is Your Business Too Complacent to Innovate? By Mike Schmidt, AEM Industry Advisor Editor| There’s an often overlooked downside to success in business no one really likes to talk or think about, yet time and again it...
April 11, 2017 North American Tractor, Combine Sales Rebound Canadian retail sales of farm tractors jumped more than 50 percent while self-propelled combine sales leaped more than 100 percent in March compared to one year ago, according...
January 22, 2018 VIDEO: Ways You Can Use Augmented Reality It's a technology that's reshaping the equipment manufacturing industry and changing the way business gets done. Augmented reality is currently being used for a number...
February 5, 2018 Think Globally When Making Ag Industry Connections My parents are German immigrants, and I never really realized how much that influenced my upbringing until I went off to college. Didn’t everyone have to speak a different...