Role: Workers
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Updated WPS Posters for "Central Posting" Areas and Certain Decontamination Sites
July 19th, 2023
Purchase printed copies of the posters from NPSEC The new poster may be printed and distributed. There are several languages available: English Spanish Chinese Haitian-Creole Ilocano Karen Russian Tagalog Vietnamese PERC is collaborating with the National Pesticide Safety Education Center (NPSEC) to promote the sale of printed posters to help support pesticide safety education nationally. […]
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WPS Nursery – Worker
July 14th, 2023
This is an EPA-approved video (21:44 minutes) for nursery workers. The video is for training agricultural workers with the expanded training content prescribed in the revised 2015 standard. For use in 2018 and beyond this is the English version from the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Heath – Farm Worker Protection Safety Program. (EPA Worker PST 00026).
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Pesticide Safety Training Requirements
July 10th, 2023
This guide addresses training requirements for both agricultural employers and commercial pesticide handler employers (CPHE) under the 2015 revised Worker Protection Standard (WPS). Who needs to be trained? Agricultural workers and pesticide handlers need WPS training annually if they will be working in treated areas on an agricultural establishment, and their activities are directly related to agricultural production. This applies to areas where a […]
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Decontamination Requirements
July 7th, 2023
To prevent, or mitigate pesticide exposures, agricultural employers are required to provide supplies to workers and handlers for routine washing and emergency situations. In the sections below, you'll learn what supplies must be provided, when, where, and for how long. What is a worker, early-entry worker, and a handler? Workers Early-Entry Workers Handlers
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Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ)
July 5th, 2023
The "Application Exclusion Zone" or AEZ is a new term used in the WPS rule and refers to the area surrounding the pesticide application equipment that must be free of all persons other than appropriately trained and equipped handlers during pesticide applications. Application Exclusion Zone GuideApplication Exclusion Zone Fact SheetApplication Exclusion Zone InfographicApplication Exclusion Zone […]
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Application Exclusion Zone Guide
July 5th, 2023
Changes to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard Updates made to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS) in 2015 are meant to protect workers and other people from pesticide exposure. One new addition is the application exclusion zone (AEZ) in outdoor production. Outdoor production includes farms, vineyards, forests, and nurseries. The AEZ is an additional requirement, separate from the restricted entry interval (REI) already required by pesticide labels. The AEZ requirements only apply […]
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Protections for Workers
July 5th, 2023
If you work around the plants on an agricultural establishment where they have used pesticides in the last 30 days, a regulation called “the Worker Protection Standard (WPS)” probably applies to you. Your employer is required to provide you with information, protections, and emergency assistance. This guide is an incomplete summary of the required protections for workers, not pesticide handlers. To learn more, […]
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Is WPS Training Needed? What Employers Need to Know.
April 27th, 2023