Row over EU vibration rule
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II A senior trade union official has slammed the delayed Introduction of the EU's antivibration rules. Barry Leathwood, Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) national secretary for agriculture, told the joint Health and Safety Committee last week that the delay is "disgraceful".
The committee is run jointly by the Rural Agricultural Allied Workers (RAAW) and the TM. They believe the new regulations will reduce the painful effect regular exposure to vlbrat Leathwood attacked a di in covering agriculture forestry equipment, wl includes tipper operators quarrymen, until 2013.
FTA engineering policy m agar Geoff Day says the El unable to find a suitable surf to test vehicles and measure vibration limits; he slams directive as "completely urni kable and impractical".