GB 10395.6-2025 Agricultural machinery — Safety —Part 6: Equipment for crop protection English, Anglais, Englisch, Inglés, えいご
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ICS 55.200
CCS H 57
National Standard of the People's Republic of China
GB 10395.6-2025
Agricultural machinery - Safety - Part 6: Equipment for crop protection
农业机械 安全 第6部分：植物保护机械
Issue date: 2025-10-31 Implementation date: 2026-11-01
Issued by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China
the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative References
3 Terms and Definitions
4 Safety Requirements and Protective Measures
4.1 General Requirements
4.2 Special Requirements for Backpack Plant Protection Machinery
4.3 Special Requirements for Boom Sprayers
4.4 Special Requirements for Self - Propelled, Suspended, Semi - Suspended, Towed, and Vehicle - Mounted Plant Protection Machinery
4.5 Special Requirements for Thermal Smoke Machines
4.6 Special Requirements for Remote - Controlled and Unmanned Plant Protection Machinery
5 Verification of Safety Requirements and/or Protective Measures
5.1 General Requirements
5.2 Verification of Safety Requirements and/or Protective Measures
6 Safety Signs
7 Instruction Manual
Appendix A (Informative) List of Major Hazards, Hazardous Conditions, and Hazardous Events
References
1 Scope
This document, together with GB 10395.1, specifies the safety requirements for the design and manufacture of plant protection machinery used for applying pesticides and spraying liquid fertilizers, as well as the methods for verifying these requirements. This document also specifies the types of information on safety operating procedures (including residual risks) that manufacturers should provide.
When the provisions of this document conflict with those of GB 10395.1, the provisions of this document take precedence for machines designed and manufactured in accordance with this document.
This document, together with GB 10395.1, identifies major hazards, hazardous conditions, and hazardous events that occur when machines are used as intended under the manufacturer's specified conditions (see Annex A), except for hazards caused by the following situations:
-Environmental factors other than noise;
-Moving parts of power - transmitting mechanisms, except for the strength requirements of protective devices and barriers.
This document applies to manual and motorized plant protection machinery (hereinafter referred to as "plant protection machinery" or "machines") used for applying pesticides and spraying liquid fertilizers (hereinafter collectively referred to as "pesticides"), including sprayers, dust sprayers, smoke machines, liquid fertilizer sprayers, etc., but does not apply to manned or unmanned aerial spraying systems.
This document does not apply to plant protection machinery manufactured before the implementation date.
2 Normative References
The contents of the following documents are incorporated into this document by reference. Where a date is specified, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document. Where no date is specified, the latest version (including all amendments) applies to this document.
GB/T 3766 Hydraulic transmission -General rules and safety requirements for systems and components
GB/T 4706.18 Household and similar electrical appliances -Safety -Part 18: Special requirements for battery chargers
GB/T 5330-2003 Industrial woven wire mesh with square holes
GB 9656 Safety technical specification for motor vehicle glass
GB 10395.1 Agricultural machinery -Safety -Part 1: General
GB 10396 Agricultural tractors and machinery, lawn and garden power machinery -Safety signs and danger graphics -General
GB/T 15706-2012 Mechanical safety -Design general principles -Risk assessment and risk reduction
GB/T 18678-2002 Plant protection machinery -Agricultural sprayers -Rated capacity of liquid tanks and diameter of filling holes
GB/T 20085 Plant protection machinery -Vocabulary
GB/T 20947-2007 Short link chains for lifting -T - type (T, DAT, and DT type) high - precision hoist chains
GB/T 23821 Mechanical safety -Safety distances to prevent access to hazardous zones by upper and lower limbs
GB/T 24679.2-2020 Plant protection machinery -Backpack sprayers -Part 2: Safety and environmental requirements
GB 26133 Emission limits and measurement methods for exhaust pollutants from small spark - ignition engines used in non - road mobile machinery (China Stage I and II)
GB/T 30464 Installation regulations for lighting, light signals, and marking devices for road - traveling agricultural tractors and machinery
HJ 1014 Technical requirements for pollutant emission control of non - road diesel mobile machinery
JB/T 6701-2018 Tractors -Headlights
3 Terms and Definitions
The terms and definitions defined in GB 10395.1, GB/T 15706-2012, GB/T 20085, and GB/T 24679.2-2020 apply to this document.
4 Safety Requirements and Protective Measures
4.1 General Requirements
4.1.1 General Requirements for Plant Protection Machinery
4.1.1.1 Plant protection machinery shall comply with the safety requirements and protective measures specified in this document. In addition, for related but non - major hazards not covered by this document, plant protection machinery shall be designed in accordance with the risk reduction strategies specified in GB/T 15706-2012. Major hazards, hazardous conditions, and hazardous events are listed in Annex A.
4.1.1.2 Unless otherwise specified in this document, plant protection machinery shall comply with the requirements of GB 10395.1.
4.1.1.3 Operators shall be able to perform the following operations without using special tools (except for tools provided with the machine): replacing consumable parts (such as nozzles, sealing elements, etc.) as specified in the instruction manual, adding pesticides, and maintaining the machine. These operations shall not contaminate the operator or the environment.
4.1.1.4 Hazardous parts of plant protection machinery, such as high - temperature components, exposed moving parts, folding and lifting mechanisms of booms, etc., which may cause squeezing and shearing, shall be equipped with safety protective devices (such as protective covers or protective nets) that comply with GB 10395.1 or GB/T 23821. When safety protective devices cannot be installed due to structural reasons or when safety distances cannot be guaranteed, safety signs complying with GB 10396 shall be affixed to prominent positions near the hazardous parts, and the instruction manual shall provide corresponding explanations.
For backpack plant protection machinery driven by internal combustion engines, the contactable area of parts with a temperature higher than 58°C that may be accidentally touched during normal operation shall not exceed 10 cm².
4.1.1.5 After adding pesticides to the rated capacity in the liquid tank of the machine, it shall be ensured that no pesticide leakage occurs during maintenance and servicing of the spraying system (except for portable machines for handheld or backpack operations).
4.1.1.6 When plant protection machinery is in the transportation state, it shall remain stable when parked on a hard inclined surface with a slope of 8.5° in any direction, under both unloaded (without pesticides) and fully loaded (with pesticides at the rated capacity) conditions. When the fully loaded plant protection machinery is tilted, pesticides in the liquid tank shall not leak or overflow.
For plant protection machinery equipped with transport wheels for easy manual handling during disassembly, the risk of the machine tipping over or rolling down the slope should be minimized.
4.1.1.7 During normal operation, all parts and connection points of plant protection machinery shall be sealed reliably, and no pesticide or other liquid leakage shall occur.
4.1.1.8 A manual control device for stopping spraying shall be provided within the operator's or driver's reachable area (except for unmanned machines). After stopping spraying, no pesticide leakage shall occur.
For handheld spraying devices (such as handheld spray guns, handheld booms, etc.), their control devices shall comply with the provisions of 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 in GB/T 24679.2-2020.
4.1.1.9 Sprayers equipped with liquid pumps shall have overpressure protection measures (such as setting pressure - limiting safety devices, etc.) to prevent the pressure from exceeding 1.2 times the highest working pressure specified by the manufacturer.
