California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders › Group 3 - General Plant Equipment and Special Operations › Article 13 - Agricultural Operations › Section 3437 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Agricultural Equipment. Tractors or implements,
						  including self-propelled implements, and stationary equipment which are used in
						  agricultural operations.
Agricultural Operations. All operations necessary to
						  farming in all of its branches, including maintenance of machinery or other
						  facilities, and the planting, cultivating or growing, keeping for sale,
						  harvesting, transporting on the farm or to the place of first processing, any
						  tree, plant, animal, fowl, fish, insect or products thereof.
Ballast. Counterbalance weight designed for the
						  agricultural tractor added to offset the weight of a load or attachment,
						  ensuring proper weight distribution between the front and rear axles.
Frond. As used in Section
						  3458, the large connected leaf of a
						  date palm tree.
Ground Driven Components. Components which are powered
						  by the turning motion of a wheel driven by ground contact as the equipment
						  travels over the ground.
Guard or Shield. See Article 37, Section
						  3941.
Guarded by Location. See Article 37, Section
						  3941.
Long-handled hand tool. Any hand-held tool with a
						  handle of four (4) feet or more in length.
Low-lying row crops. Produce or fruits such as carrots,
						  lettuce, beets, radishes, celery and strawberries, grown in cultivated fields
						  that are planted in rows and of such a height that does not impede the
						  visibility of the agricultural tractor operator and operators of other vehicles
						  in the area.
Nip Point. The mesh or pinch point of in-running
						  surfaces such as gears, belts, sprockets, rolls, etc.
Pipe Trailer. A towed implement with one or more
						  wheeled axles designed specifically to transport irrigation pipes.
Power Take-Off (PTO) Drivelines. The shafts and
						  universal joints between the tractor, or other power source, and the first gear
						  set, pulley, or sprocket. Power Take-Off (PTO) Shaft. The power output shaft
						  protruding from the drive unit of the agricultural equipment.
Self-Propelled Agricultural Equipment. Mobile equipment
						  which is provided with locomotive power as an integral part of the unit.
Short-handled hand tool. Any hand-held tool with a
						  handle of less than four (4) feet in length.
Single-User Toilet Facility. A toilet facility with a
						  locking mechanism, controlled by the user, with one toilet, or one toilet and
						  one urinal.
Tractor-Mounted Personnel Transport Carriers (PTCs).
						  Personnel carrier mounted to a three-point hitch at the rear of an agricultural
						  tractor.
1.
						  Repealer and new section filed 5-13-77; effective thirtieth day thereafter
						  (Register 77, No. 20).
2. Amendment filed 5-15-85; effective
						  thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 20).
3. Amendment filed
						  1-5-87; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 87, No. 2).
4.
						  New definition of "frond" filed 8-4-2003; operative 9-3-2003 (Register 2003,
						  No. 32).
5. New definitions of "Ballast," "Low-lying row crops,"
						  "Pipe Trailer" and "Tractor-Mounted Personnel Transport Carriers (PTCs)" filed
						  9-15-2015; operative 1-1-2016 (Register 2015, No. 38).
6. New
						  definition of "Single-User Toilet Facility" filed 3-3-2020; operative 7-1-2020
						  (Register 2020, No. 10).
Note: Authority cited: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code. Reference: Section
							 142.3, Labor
							 Code.