Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has documented 498 off-highway vehicle (OHV) fatalities last year, only in America and most of them (between 60%-80%) involving ATV Crash Rollovers. In January 2024´s Report, that compiled data from 2023, the CFA has detailed the most common causes of deaths, the ... Read more
THE GUARDIAN: Government had rejected campaigners’ demands for new safety measures on basis of outdated research A shameful episode that occurred in the United Kingdom where British ministers claimed, based on reports dated 1999, that quad protection systems could increase the risk of injury has been ... Read more
Grupo De Prado and Air-Rops worked together during the last months to improve the safety of its employees. In Grupo De Prado, workers´ health and safety is vital. That is why, this family owned company, founded in 1831 and based in Andalucia (Spain), has installed the ... Read more
Soon showing!! This season we will be at the following Expo/salon/fair supporting our local distributors: Innov-Agri From September 7 to 9. Agriculture Show in Outarville, France. https://www.innovagri.com/ FEMA From September 15-18. Úbeda agricultural machinery fair. https://feriamaquinariaagricolaubeda.com/ Expoliva From September 21 to 25. International Fair of olive ... Read more
MACHINERY DIRECTIVE 2006/42/CE The Machinery Directive, Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 is a European Union directive concerning machinery and certain parts of machinery. Its main intent is to ensure a common safety level in machinery placed ... Read more
The use of rollover protective structures (ROPS), along with seat belts, is the best-known method for reducing the frequency of these fatalities. One impediment to ROPS use, however, is low clearance situations, such as orchards and animal confinement buildings. Adjustable ROPS have been developed by ... Read more
During the product development process Air-ROPS has conducted the necessary rollover tests to validate the structural resistance and deployment conditions of the AR-Quad
Invited by Jets Marivent, CFMOTO importer for Spain, Air Rops has implemented in two of the ATV's shown in the exhibition the new roll over protection system AR-Quad. The equipment was installed both in the folded and the deployed position to allow visitors have a ... Read more
The Australian Government is to make rollbars mandatory on all new quad bikes within two years. The move raises the question of whether New Zealand will follow suit but also of how many quad bikes bought in this country are manufactured in or distributed from Australia ... Read more
