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Pesticide

Safety I n f o r m a t i o n
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

A No. 8

Safety Rules for Pesticide
Handlers on Farms
The pesticide label, your training, and this
leaflet, tell you about pesticide dangers at work.
Your employer must teach you how to use pesticides
safely and how to protect yourself when you use them.
Pesticides are chemicals that are used to control
unwanted insects, weeds, and plant diseases.
EMPLOYERS: This is the hazard communication
leaflet for pesticide handlers. Fill in the blank lines
in this leaflet and display this handout at the
employee’s worksite.

Emergency medical care
Your employer must make plans for emergency medical care
before you start working with pesticides. If you think that pesticides
made you sick or hurt you at work, tell your employer. They must
make sure that you are taken to a doctor right away.
DO NOT TAKE YOURSELF.
Emergency medical care is available at
(address and telephone number):

If you think
pesticides have
made you sick
at work,
your employer must

REMEMBER: You do not have to pay for medical care if you get sick
or hurt from pesticides at work.

make sure that
you are taken
to the doctor

IMMEDIATELY.

What are my rights?
You have the right to know the following about pesticides that have
been used recently where you work:

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• When and where the pesticide was applied
• Name of the pesticide and active ingredient(s)
• The EPA registration number
As part of your training, your employer must tell you where all this
information is kept. Your employer must also let you see the records
anytime you want without having to ask.
You can find information about recent pesticide use at (employers,
this is the application-specific information):

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• The restricted entry interval (REI)

How can I tell which pesticides are more dangerous?
Most pesticide labels have a signal word
(“Danger,” “Warning,” “Caution”) on the
front of the label. This word tells
you about the acute health
effect of the pesticide.

If you get sick or hurt BECAUSE OF YOUR JOB, you have the right to
file for worker’s compensation. Workers’ compensation will pay for
your medical bills, and sometimes, lost pay.
You have the right to look at Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and records
for all pesticides used where you work. The SDS tells you about each
specific pesticide and its dangers.
These records are kept at:

Your employer must explain your rights to you. If you need more
help in understanding your rights, call or go to your local county
agricultural commissioner’s office, local legal aid and worker’s rights
office, union, or the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).
The DPR offices are:
• Anaheim (714) 279-7690
• Clovis (559) 297-3511
• West Sacramento (916) 376-8960

Who do I tell about dangers at work?
Pesticides are only one kind of danger at your work. If you have a
complaint about a pesticide safety problem, you should call your
County Agricultural Commissioner. You can look up the Commissioner’s number in the government pages of your local phone book,
or by calling DPR’s toll-free complaint information line, 1-87PestLine
(1-877-378-5463). Other health and safety complaints (bathrooms,
heat stress, drinking water, etc.) should be filed with the California
Department of Industrial Relations Cal/OSHA office.

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What training should I get?
Your employer must:
• T
 rain you in a way that you understand BEFORE you begin working
with pesticides, and anytime you work with new pesticides.
• G
 ive you training each year to remind you how to work with
pesticides safely.
• T
 ell you the ways a pesticide can hurt you and how to safely use
each pesticide you work with (Ask your employer for the A-1 safety
leaflet to learn more about training).
• G
 ive you extra training if you have to use a respirator (ask your
employer for the A-5 safety leaflet).
• T
 ell you how to move pesticides from one place to another, or
dispose of empty pesticide containers (there are special rules
your employer must tell you about. Ask for the A-2 safety leaflet
for more information).
Other safety leaflets mentioned in this document should be part of
your training. They are free and are available from your employer or
your County Agricultural Commissioner’s office.
All the information about your training must be written down.
You will be given a paper to sign to show you have been trained.
Only sign this form after you have finished the training and you
understand what you heard.

What can a pesticide label tell me?
All pesticides are poisonous. If a pesticide gets in or on you, it can hurt
you or make you sick. The pesticide label tells you how to safely mix
and apply the pesticide. The label must be at the place where you mix
or apply the pesticide. You must read and follow ALL directions on the
label. There may be additional product bulletins or label information
that you must read and follow.
Some of the most important things listed on the label are:

Pesticide
Name
EPA Registration No.
Active Ingredients
Inert Ingredients

xx%
x%

DANGER

First Aid

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2. First aid and health warnings.

Precautionary Statements
Hazards to Humans
Personal Protective Equipment
Environment Hazards

3. Protective equipment needed.

Agricultural Use Requirements

1. Chemicals in the pesticide.

4. Directions for applying the pesticide.

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Directions for Use

How can I tell which pesticides are
more dangerous?

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Most pesticide labels have a signal word in large print on the front
of the label. This signal word tells you about the acute health effect of
the pesticide. If a pesticide can hurt you or make you sick right away,
that’s called an acute effect. If it takes months or years of exposure
to a pesticide before you get sick, that’s called a chronic effect.

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These are the words that tell about acute effects:
• “DANGER”—this pesticide is extremely harmful.
• “WARNING”—this pesticide is moderately harmful.
• “CAUTION”—this pesticide is slightly harmful.
If the label doesn’t have one of these words, it means that the pesticide is less likely to harm you. However, you should handle every
pesticide carefully.

What else does the label tell me?
• If the pesticide can severely hurt your eyes or skin, the label
will say something like “Corrosive, causes eye and skin damage.”
• If the pesticide can make you very sick, the label will have a
skull-and-crossbones symbol and the word “POISON.”
• Words like “FATAL” or “may be fatal if swallowed, inhaled, or
absorbed through the skin,” mean the pesticide can make you
very sick or even kill you.
• Some pesticide labels tell you about other health problems that
might not show up until long after use (may take years), such as
cancer or dangers to unborn babies.

Are there any extra rules for
very dangerous pesticides?
Yes, there are two groups of pesticides that California has extra rules
for because they could be especially dangerous to you.

The first group is the organophosphate or carbamate pesticides.
If you mix, load, or apply organophosphates or carbamates,
California rules might require you to get extra medical care.
Ask your employer for A-10 safety leaflet for more information
on these pesticides.
The doctor providing extra medical care for organophosphates and
carbamates is:
NAME
ADDRESS
TELEPHONE NUMBER

Medical records for handlers of these pesticides are kept at:

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The second group is called minimal exposure pesticides (MEP).
These are the agricultural pesticides on the MEP list:
• Omite, Comite
• Buctril
• Metasystox-R
See the A-6 safety leaflet for more information about safety rules if
you have to work with these pesticides.

SUMMARY OF RECORDS YOUR EMPLOYER MUST KEEP
Information				Location
Training papers			

Employer’s office site

Written training program

Employer’s office site

Respirator program procedures		

Employer’s office site

Accident response plan (fumigants)

Work site

Pesticide label				

Work site

Pesticide Safety Information Series

Employer’s office site

Safety Data Sheet			

Employer’s office site

Storage area posting1

Storage area

Emergency medical care notice		

Work site

Doctor’s report for respirator use

Employer’s office site

Pesticide use records			

Employer’s office site

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Proposition 65
In 1986, a law called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act
of 1986 (Proposition 65) was passed. Proposition 65 requires California to
make a list of chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. The Proposition 65 list contains many different chemicals,
including dyes, solvents, pesticides, drugs, and food additives. Your
employer may also choose to warn you if a pesticide on the Proposition
65 list has been sprayed, even if health problems are not likely. Your
employer is required to keep information on each pesticide application
and allow you to look at it. If you are not sure of the record location,
ask your employer.

If you don’t get all the information you need
in your training, you should call your County
Agricultural Commissioner, or the Department
of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for more information. You can find the Commissioner’s number
in your local white pages phone directory, by
calling 1-87PestLine, or at:
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/exec/county/countymap/

DPR’s Regional Offices are:
l Northern (West Sacramento) 916/376-8960
l Central (Clovis) (559) 297-3511
l Southern (Anaheim) 714/279-7690

The list of pesticides that are on the Proposition 65 list and
that might be used in California, can be found at
http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/dept/factshts/prop65.htm.

DOWNLOAD current Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the State to
cause cancer or reproductive toxicity:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/Newlist.html

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Safety Tips
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR SKIN

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• Wear clothes with long sleeves
and long pants, shoes or boots
socks, a hat and/or scarf
and gloves
• Make sure they are clean
and without holes

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• Always wash your hands before
eating, drinking, smoking,
chewing gum or going to
the bathroom
• Do not cook food with wood
found in the field

• Pesticides get on work clothes
and then on your skin
• Wash work clothes before
wearing them again
• Wash work clothes separate
from other clothes

• Take a bath or shower as soon
as you get home from work
• Wash with soap & water and
use shampoo on your hair
• Put on clean clothes

WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ILLNESS OR INJURY
• Pesticides get on your skin and clothes when you touch sprayed plants,
soil, and irrigation water or are exposed to spray drift
• They can move from your clothes and onto your skin
• Some pesticides easily go through your skin and can make you sick
• Tell your employer if you are sick or hurt at work
• If the illness/injury is work-related, your employer will pay for all medical care of that illness
• If the condition is work-related, you may be paid for your time off work while sick or hurt

Have someone else drive you to the doctor if you are sick or injured

FIRST AID

ALWAYS REMEBER

PESTICIDE

• Wash immediately with the
closest clean water if pesticides are spilled or sprayed
on your clothes or skin
• Change into clean clothes
• Tell your employer about the
spill after washing

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• Wash if your eyes or skin begin
to itch or burn
• Use lots of water
• Tell your employer you should
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• If you feel sick at work (headache,
stomach ache, vomiting, dizzy)
tell your employer
• He or she can make sure
you are taken to a doctor
• Have someone else drive you
to the doctor if you are sick
or injured

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• Never put pesticides in
food containers
• Do not take farm pesticides
or their containers home
• Keep children away
from pesticides

			

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