HI SB3162

Requires state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after January 1, 2025, to use broadband technology audible reverse warning systems instead of traditional tonal alarms (back-up beepers).

Defines "vehicle" to include earthmoving and compacting equipment such as bulldozers, graders, loaders, scrapers, off-highway trucks, and similar equipment.

Legislative findings cite OSHA regulations that do not specify alarm type but require warning sounds audible above surrounding noise; notes broadband alarms are nearly two-thirds more effective than tonal alarms at preventing workplace fatalities.

Broadband alarms (quackers/wooshers) reduce urban noise pollution and worker desensitization compared to single-frequency tonal back-up beepers.

Takes effect January 1, 2050.