- Agricultural
Chemicals and Worker Safety
Michael T. Olexa, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, November 1991
The EPA regulations hold the landowner (or lessee) ultimately responsible for compliance
with the worker safety standards.
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- Agricultural Owners,
Family Labor and the Worker Protection Standard
David E. Baker, University of Missouri-Columbia Extension, December 1997
It is the intent of this publication to help these owners determine whether they qualify
for the agricultural owner exemptions and, should they qualify, to describe the
responsibilities that the owners and their families have in complying with the WPS.
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- Agricultural Pesticide
Safety
William J. Becker and Freddie A. Johnson, Florida Cooperative Extension
Service, December 1992
Safety with pesticides should be a concern of everyone involved with these chemicals.
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- OSHA Hazard
Communication Standard Teaching Plan
William J. Becker, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, December 1991
When Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in
1970, it had language stating that a standard "shall prescribe the use of labels or
other appropriate forms of warning...
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- OSHA Hazard
Communication Standard -Federal
C.D. Covey, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, July 1992
Any employer who manufactures, imports, distributes, stores or uses in
the workplace chemicals which are determined to be hazardous must inform employees of such
hazards.
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- Pesticide
Mixing-Loading Facility
Ray A. Bucklin and William J. Becker, Florida Cooperative Extension
Service, October 1992
Registration of pesticides, transportation, the training of
applicators, storage facilities, spills and proper disposal of containers, excess
pesticides and rinseates.
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- Pesticide Toxicology:
Evaluating Safety and Risk
Fred Whitford, Coordinator, Tom Fuhremann, K.S. Rao, Gail Arce and James E.
Klauni, Cooperative Extension Service Purdue University, September 1997
The public perceives pesticides as a unique class of chemicals more
dangerous than chemicals in prescription and over-the-counter medications and more toxic
than chemicals that occur naturally in food and the environment.
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- Pesticide Use and
Safety
L. B. McCarty and O. N. Nesheim, Florida Cooperative Extension Service,
1985
Pesticide Use and Safety.
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- Pesticides
and Ecological Risk Assessment
Fred Whitford, Douglas Urban, Monte Mayes and Jeff Wolt, Cooperative
Extension Service Purdue University, December 1997
Society has been impatient with scientists and regulators over
unresolved questions concerning potential health and environmental risk.
Link to site
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- Pesticides and
Personal Safety
Fred Whitford, C. Richard Edwards, Jonathan J. Neal, Andrew G. Martin,
PurdueUniversity Cooperative Extension Service
Personal safety is very important when handeling any pesticides.
Includes valuable information for proper care to be taken.
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- Proper Disposal
of Pesticide Wastes
O. Norman Nesheim, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, 1993
Proper pesticide waste disposal is an important part of responsible
pesticide use by the certified pesticide applicator.
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- Storm-Damaged
Agrichemical Facilities
Thomas W. Dean and O. Norman Nesheim, Florida Cooperative Extension
Service, April 1993
This fact sheet provides guidelines to help secure pesticides and
other agricultural chemicals subjected to severe storm conditions.
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- Toxicity of Pesticides
O. Norman Nesheim, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, October 1993
Pesticides can irritate the skin, eyes, nose, or mouth, it is a good
idea to understand how pesticides can be toxic.
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- Using
Herbicides Safely and HerbicideToxicity
D. L. Colvin, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, November 1997
Almost all herbicide accidents have been due to carelessness and could
have been prevented by reading and following the label instructions given on the herbicide
container.
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- What Rules for
California Ag Pesticide Users?
Howard R. Rosenberg, University of California, 1996
The spray is still drying and the dust not completely settled, but
revisions of California's pesticide safety regulations have definitely taken shape.
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- Worker Protection
Standard
William J. Becker and Heather Pirozzoli, Florida Cooperative Extension
Service, March 1993
The Worker Protection Standard contains requirements designed to
reduce the risks of illness or injury resulting from pesticide handlers’...
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- Worker
Protection Standard Focus on...Protective Clothing
United States Environmental Protection Agency, February 1994
The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) for agricultural pesticides
includes requirements for use of protective clothing for pesticide handlers and for
workers who enter a treated area during a restricted entry interval (REI).
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- Worker
Protection Standard Focus on...Training Verification
United States Environmental Protection Agency, February 1994
The Agency has developed a voluntary program to issue EPA training
verification cards to workers and handlers to verify that they have received Worker
Protection Standard (WPS) safety training.
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