January 24, 2018 Reminder: OSHA Injury/Illness Logs Due February 1 Using Form 300 - Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses - for each work site, employers must record injuries/illnesses that result in death, loss of consciousness, days away...
January 12, 2018 Six Risky Misconceptions About Workplace Violence Knowledge is power. False knowledge exposes everyone to risk. This is especially true when evaluating your workplace for the risk of workplace violence. Misconceptions about...
January 12, 2018 Federal Regulators to Consider Policy on Automated Buses, Trucks Federal regulators are taking the first step toward creating a policy guiding the development of autonomous transportation beyond self-driving cars to include trucks, buses and...
January 9, 2018 OSHA's New Silica Dust Rule Upheld in U.S. Court of Appeals On December 22, 2017, a three-judge panel of the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected challenges to a 2016 Occupational Safety and Health...
January 3, 2018 OSHA Increases Penalties 2 Percent As of January 2, 2018, OSHA has raised it civil penalties for safety and health violations issued in 2018. In its Federal Register notice, the Department of Labor explained the...
January 1, 2018 Expanded Ore. Move-Over Law Takes Effect A new law in Oregon requires drivers to move over for any vehicle stopped on the side of road that is displaying hazard lights or a distress signal. The law takes effect January...
December 22, 2017 5,190 Fatal Work Injuries in US in 2016 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a total of 5,190 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2016, a 7-percent increase from the 4,836 fatal injuries...
December 19, 2017 Ruling Gives OSHA Some Jurisdiction in Mines A federal appeals court ruled that the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) can investigate and fine federally regulated mines for safety violations involving non...
November 29, 2017 Air Emission Reporting Date Delayed to Jan. 22, 2018 The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has extended the deadline for farmers to report air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste at livestock operations until Jan. 22...
November 28, 2017 Four in Five Illinois Debris Sites Found to Be High in Toxins Among 92 quarries and other excavation sites licensed to take what state law calls “clean construction and demolition debris,” or CCDD, the agency notified 74 of violations...
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...