Lewis Barbe has commented on proposed American National Standards/American Society of Agultural Engineer standard which is currently being revised.

2. 20 March 2015
Lewis Barbe has commented on proposed American National Standards/American Society of
Agultural Engineer standard which is currently being revised. A summary of the official comments are
as follows:
ANSI/ASAE S323.2 JUN1983 (R2009)
Approved May 1989; reaffirmed January 2010 as an
American National Standard
SUMMARY OF BALLOT to: MS-52
Proposal: Perform periodic review of ANSI/ASAE S323.2 JUN1983 (R2009) Definitions of Powered
Lawn and Garden Equipment. A five year approval has been recommended.
The following three standards were balloted to MS-52 for approval of a five year reaffirmation. All
were approved by the committee with eight reaffirm votes and one revise vote. Three members did
not vote. Your reasons for voting to revise the standards are also included below.
1) ANSI/ASAE S323.2 JUN1983 (R2009) Definitions of Powered Lawn and Garden Equipment.
Revise vote comment from L Barbe: Need to incorporate ISO defiinations and in piticular
guard,warnings.
2) ANSI/ASAE S377 DEC1974 (R2009) Application of Remote Linear Control Devices to Lawn and
Garden Ride-on Tractor Attachments and Implements.
Revise vote comment from L Barbe: Need to require a system sfety analysis and reference
ANSI Z535 on warnings.
3) ANSI/ASABE S599 NOV2010 Standardized Deployment Performance of an Automatically
Deployable ROPS for Turf & Landscape Equipment.
Revise vote comment from L Barbe: Need to require a full sytem safety analysis and
standards for manufacturs training program, instructions and warnings
In accordance with the ANSI approved ASABE Standardization Procedures for a standard to be
reaffirmed at least six members of the committee are required to review and vote to approve or

3. disapprove. Disapproval votes must be accompanied by comments or rationale and suggestions for
changes. Wording indicating that disapproval vote shall be accompanied by comments, or
suggestions for change, shall be conspicuously included in the ballot text. To reaffirm the standard,
greater that 50% of the votes, less abstentions and disapprovals without comments, shall be to
approve. If the consensus of the committee is to reaffirm, but legitimate review comments are
brought forward, the standard shall be reaffirmed, but the committee chair shall work with the
member who wishes to revise the standard to complete and return a PPF (Project Proposal Form) to
ASABE Standards staff.