Field Worker Safety Inspection: What To Expect…

1. Field Worker Safety Inspection: What To Expect… Alex McVicker Agricultural Biologist

2. Why We Conduct Inspections

3. www.cdpr.ca.gov Click on:Regulations Click on:Title 3. California Code of Regulations

4. In the Field

5. The White County Truck

6. The Inspection!

8. Notice ofapplication within 1/4 mile: Workers that will be within 1/4 mile of of an application or a site where the label REI is in effect must be notified.

9. Application Specific Information: • Treated field = REI + 30 days. • Fieldworkers will be in a treated field or within 1/4 mile of a treated field. • Specific information = Location, date and time, REI, pesticide name and active ingredient, EPA Reg. number. • Fieldworkers must have unimpeded access to the information. • Needs to be completed within 24 hours.

10. Farm Labor Contractor Registered: • If you are a licensed farm labor contractor, make sure you register annually with the County Agricultural Commissioner.

11. Labeling – Personal Protective Equipment: • Workers entering a field prior to the expiration of the pesticide REI need to wear PPE as required by the label for early entry.

13. Hazard Communication A-9: • A completed A-9 from the Pesticide Safety Information Series must be available to fieldworkers. • Must be readily accessible during business hours.

15. Field Work During Pesticide Application: • Forbidden! • This is a noncompliance if fieldworkers are inside the treatment area plus 25 feet.

16. Field Worker Training: • Fieldworkers must be trained once every five years – need not be documented. • We determine if employees are trained by asking them a variety of pertinent questions. • Field Worker Training: • Fieldworkers must be trained once every five years – need not be documented. • We determine if employees are trained by asking them a variety of pertinent questions.

18. Emergency Medical Care Knowledge: • Employees or a supervisor must know what to do and where to go in a medical emergency. • Emergency Medical Care does not have to be “Posted” for fieldworkers.

19. Decontamination Facility: • Fieldworkers working in a treated field (REI + 30 days) must have sufficient water, soap, and single use towels. • The decontamination facility within 1/4 mile from where the employees are working.

21. Field Entry after Pesticide Application: • If entry necessary, read the label for requirements. • 4 hours must elapse after application before “limited contact” (must be necessary and unforeseen) activities and “no hand labor” activities in a treated field. • Regulation for early entry is very specific.

22. Early Entry Requirements: • Employers must provide label required PPE to early entry workers when they will be coming into contact with treated surfaces. • Don’t forget the eyewash if label requires protective eyewear.

23. Posting Compliance: • Treated fields must be posted when: • Required by label • REI greater than 7 days • Danger or Minimal exposure pesticides applied through drip irrigation system • Fumigant applied • Prior to the application • Posting must be removed within 3 days after REI expiration

24. Greenhouse ventilation criteria: • When respiratory protection required or pesticide fumigants, mists, fogs are applied. • Follow label standard for ventilation, if none, follow regulation criteria.

25. When All Goes Well… THE END!

26. QUESTIONS? www.cdpr.ca.gov www.sonoma-county.org/agcomm