See “Quick-Connect”: EPA-approved Handler/Worker Training of EPA Approved Training Resources webpage for this newly-added WPS resource: Video (English) – Agricultural Worker and Handler Pesticide Safety Training (MP4). Iowa State … [Continue reading]
All licensed pesticide applicators, as well as dealers, who store pesticides are required by law to send a copy of their storage inventor(ies) with an explanatory cover letter to the local fire company by May 1st each year. In New Jersey, all … [Continue reading]
Not that EPA's 2015 "Agricultural Worker Protection Standard Revisions" 40 CFR 170 (PDF) is a snoozer... Rutgers recommends several resources that will give you a leg up when it comes to understanding the revisions to the federal … [Continue reading]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised the 1992 Agricultural Worker Protection Standard* (WPS) regulation on November 2, 2015 to increase protection from pesticide exposure for the nation’s two million agricultural workers … [Continue reading]