Cal/OSHA Board Backs Advisory Panel For Autonomous Farm Vehicle Rules

California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board is launching an advisory committee that will weigh amending state safety rules to eventually allow deployment of certain types of autonomous agricultural equipment, amid continued pushback from labor advocacy groups. At its Nov. 21 meeting, the board unanimously backed a motion that occupational safety representative Derek Urwin said will “populate a balanced advisory committee on the topic of autonomous agricultural vehicles, that would determine a scope for rulemaking, make a plan for data collection, evaluate...