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CA Department of Pesticide Regulation
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1001 I Street, Sacramento CA 95814 PSIS A No. 9 (HS-1587) 2018 A9
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Pesticide Safety Rules
For Farmworkers
Your training and this leaet tell you about
pesticide dangers at work. Pesticides are
chemicals that are used to control unwanted
insects, weeds, and plant diseases. If you work on
a farm, or in a forest, greenhouse, or nursery, your
employer must know about the pesticides used
and help you learn how to protect yourself.
FERTILIZERS ARE NOT PESTICIDES.
Pesticide
Safety
Information
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
A No. 9
EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE
Your employer must plan for medical care before you start working
where pesticides have been used. You or your supervisor must be
informed of the location of the doctor. If you think that pesticides
made you sick or hurt you at work, immediately tell your employer.
They must make sure that you are taken to the doctor immediately.
Do not drive yourself to the doctor if you get sick at work.
Emergency medical care is available at:
NAME: _________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: ______________________________________________________
TELEPHONE: ____________________________________________________
If more space is needed, your employer may attach a list of med-
ical facilities to this leaet and write “See attached list” in the
above space.
REMEMBER: You DO NOT have to pay for medical care if you get
sick or hurt from pesticides at work.
EMPLOYERS: This is the
hazard communication
leaet for your eldwork-
ers. Fill in the blank lines
in this leaet and display
a copy of this leaet at the
employee’s worksite, all
permanent decontamina-
tion facilities, and decon-
tamination facilities serv-
ing 11 or more workers. If
requested, you must read
this leaet to an employee
in a language the employ-
ee understands.
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1001 I Street, Sacramento CA 95814 A9
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WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I START FEELING
SICK AT WORK?
Pesticides can make you sick. Symptoms of pesticide poisoning
can be the same as being stressed or ill from heat, having the
u, or other common illnesses. If you get a headache, dizziness,
coughing, eye pain, blurred vision, burning eyes, an upset stom-
ach, u-like symptoms, or a rash while working in the eld, ask
your employer to take you to the doctor. You can also get skin
rashes from plants and insects in the eld.
WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS?
Your employer must explain your rights to you. If you need help un-
derstanding your rights, call or go to your local County Agricultural
Commissioner’s ofce, local legal aid and worker’s rights organiza-
tion, union, or the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).
1. Right to Know
You have the right to know the following about pesticides that
have been used recently where you work:
• The crop or site treated.
• Where the pesticide was applied.
• When the application started and ended.
• The restricted entry interval (REI).
• Name of the pesticide, active ingredient(s), and U.S. EPA or Cali
fornia registration number.
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• The Safety Data Sheet for the applied pesticide.
Your employer must tell you where this information is kept, and
must tell you if the location of this information changes. For recent
applications, your employer must let you see the records anytime
you want without having to ask anyone. You may have to ask to see
older records.
You can nd information about recent pesticide use at:
(Employers: this is the application-specic information)
ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
HOW TO FIND THE INFORMATION: ________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
If more space is needed, your employer may attach a list of grower
names, addresses, and descriptions to this leaet and write “See
attached list” in the above space.
ALWAYS WASH YOUR
HANDS
before eating, drinking,
chewing gum, using your
phone, smoking,
or going to the
bathroom.
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S
A
F
E
T
Y
T
I
P
IF YOU THINK
pesticides
have made you
sick at work,
immediately tell
your employer.
Your employer
must make sure
that you are taken
to the doctor
IMMEDIATELY.
4. Right to Obtain Information
You, your doctor, or your representative designated in writing can
receive information from the grower or your employer. This in-
cludes which pesticides the elds were treated with or any other
pesticide record the grower or your employer has to keep.
5. Right to Report Unsafe Conditions
Pesticide safety for workers is the top priority of the County
Agricultural Commissioner and DPR. You have the right to report
unsafe pesticide work conditions and suspected pesticide use
violations without being punished or red. Neither the grower nor
your employer will be told who made the complaint. Your state-
ments about the safety problems must be checked out right away.
6. Right to Be Protected From Retaliation
You are protected from being red, from discrimination, and from
any retaliatory action due to the exercise of any of your rights.
WHO DO I TELL ABOUT DANGERS AT
WORK?
Pesticides are only one kind of danger at your work. If you have
a complaint about pesticide safety, call your County Agricultural
Commissioner. Your local County Agricultural Commissioner’s
ofce is:
ADDRESS: ______________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
TELEPHONE: ____________________________________________________
If you have other health and safety complaints (bathrooms,
heat stress, drinking water, etc.), le them with the California
Department of Industrial Relations Cal/OSHA ofce by calling:
1-844-522-6734.
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2. Right to Worker’s Compensation
If you get sick or hurt BECAUSE OF YOUR JOB, you have the right
to le for worker’s compensation. Worker’s compensation will
pay for your medical bills, and sometimes, lost pay.
3. Right to Access and Review Training Records
You have the right to look at your safety training records from
your employer. These records are kept at:
ADDRESS:______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
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HOW CAN I PROTECT MYSELF FROM
PESTICIDES?
Learn all you can from this leaet and your safety training. BE SAFE.
Know where you may be exposed to pesticides. If your employer tells
you to stay out of a eld, do not go in it. Stay away from equipment that
is applying pesticides. After working in a eld, wash your hands before
eating, drinking, chewing gum, using your phone, smoking, or going to
the bathroom. At the end of the day, remove your boots or shoes before
entering your home and removing your work clothes. Wash your body
and hair with soap or shampoo right after work, and change into clean
clothes as soon as possible. Wash your work clothes before wearing
them again.
WHEN I WORK IN A FIELD, WHAT MUST MY
EMPLOYER GIVE ME TO WASH UP?
When you work in a eld that has been treated with pesticides, there
must be a place nearby with soap, clean water, and paper towels. This
is for washing your hands and face, and for emergency eye ushing.
You must be told where these items are before you work in the eld.
If pesticides are spilled or sprayed on you, use these supplies to wash
immediately, and inform your employer.
WHEN DO I NEED TRAINING AND WHAT
DOES IT COVER?
You must be trained before working in elds where pesticides have
been used recently, and every year after that. The pesticide safety train-
ing must be in a language you understand, and be done by a qualied
trainer. You must be trained at a location free of distractions and your
trainer must be with you the entire time you are being trained. Your
employer must make your training record available to you anytime you
ask for it.
Your employer must train you about:
1. Health Effects
• How pesticides can injure you or make you or your family sick.
• How to protect yourself and your family (especially children and preg-
nant women) from pesticides.
• How you may feel or look if you get pesticides in or on you.
• Ways pesticides can enter your body.
• How you may feel or look if you get sick from being too hot and what
rst aid steps to take.
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2. Pesticide Safety
• The places at your work where you might get pesticides in or on you.
• First aid and emergency washing methods, including eye wash.
• How, when, and where to get emergency medical care.
• What work clothes to wear and how to wash your work clothes.
• Why and how you should wash after work.
• Why you should not take pesticides home from work.
• What eld posting signs and restricted entry intervals mean.
• That your employer must keep you out of application exclusion zones.
•
What your employer must give you before you enter a eld during a
restricted entry interval.
• How to report suspected pesticide violations
• Your rights as an employee.
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 nished the training and you understand what you heard.
You cannot be told to mix, load, or apply pesticides unless you have been
trained by your employer to do that job safely (the A-8 safety leaet has
more information about safely handling pesticides).
WHAT WILL I BE TOLD ABOUT NEARBY
PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS?
Your employer must tell you about nearby applications on the property
OR the grower must post warning signs in elds that are being treated
with pesticides. When there is a nearby application being made to the
property you are on, your employer must tell you:
This must be in a language you understand. Follow directions from
your employer about staying out of treated elds and enclosed spaces
like greenhouses, hoop houses, or mushroom houses.
WASH WORK
CLOTHES
separate from
other laundry.
BEFORE APPLICATION AFTER APPLICATION
Date of application
Location and description of
the treated area
Location and description of
the treated area
Dates and times when entry
is restr
icted
Not to enter the eld and the
application exclusion zone
To stay out of the eld until
entry is no longer restricted
DANGER
KEEP OUT
NO ENTRE
GROWER:
FIELD IDENTIFICATION:
REI EXPIRATION DATE:
If you see a sign like this, it means stay
out!
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WHAT DOES “RESTRICTED ENTRY
INTERVAL” (REI) MEAN?
A REI is the time after a pesticide has been applied when you
are not allowed to go into a eld. If you touch a plant in a treated
eld during the REI, you might become sick. After a pesticide is
used on a plant, it will begin to go away. But this takes time, so
you must stay out of the treated eld or enclosed space until the
REI ends and your employer or the farmer tells you it is safe to
work in the eld or enclosed space.
CAN I EVER GO INTO A FIELD WITH A
REI IN EFFECT?
Usually, you must stay out of a eld until the REI ends and your
employer or the farmer tells you that you can enter the eld.
Never walk or sit in a eld that has been sprayed with pesticides.
Your employer will try to schedule pesticide applications and your
work so you will not go into sprayed elds. Normally, you can-
not be told to enter a eld or enclosed space if warning signs are
posted
There are a few times when you can go into a eld or enclosed
space during the REI. However, you cannot go into the eld until
at least four hours after the pesticide application. You must be at
least 18 years old to enter a eld during the REI. There may also
be other rules that apply. Your employer must know these rules
and tell you about them before you go into the eld. He must also
tell you how long you can work in that eld in one day. For some
kinds of jobs, you may only be allowed to work in that eld for a
short period of time.
WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW IF I HAVE
TO GO INTO A FIELD DURING THE REI?
Your employer must tell you each time:
1. Where you will be working.
2. The name of the pesticide sprayed and when the REI began and
when it will end.
3. If there are special restrictions on your tasks, such as if you can
touch treated surfaces and how much time you can be in the
area.
4. What the label says are dangers to you.
5. How you may feel or look if you get pesticides in or on you.
If you don’t get all the information you
need in your training or want to make a
pesticide use complaint, you should call
your County Agricultural Commissioner, or
the DPR for more information. You can  nd
the Commissioner’s number in your local
white pages phone directory, by calling
1-87PestLine, or at: www.cdfa.ca.gov/exec/
county/countymap/
DPR’s Regional Of ces are:
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Northern (West Sacramento) 916/376-8960
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Central (Clovis) 559/297-3511
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Southern (Anaheim) 714/279-7690
All safety lea ets are available at:
www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/whs/psisenglish.htm
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6. What emergency rst aid steps to take if a pesticide makes
you sick and how to get help right away.
7. Where to nd this leaet and the A-8 safety leaet.
8. The protective clothes or equipment you must wear, and
that once worn, your work clothes and protective clothes or
equipment may be contaminated with pesticides.
9. How to keep from getting sick from being too hot if you use
protective clothing or equipment.
10. How to wear, remove, store, and clean the protective
clothes and equipment.
11. Why you need to thoroughly wash after you leave the eld.
Your employer must give you all the clean protective clothing
or equipment you need. If the label requires you to protect
your eyes, you need to carry eyewash while you are working.
You must be given a clean, pesticide-free place to store your
personal clothing, and to put on or take off protective clothing
or equipment. You must also be given extra coveralls in case
you get pesticide on your clothes. Your employer must give
you soap, clean water, and towels for you to wash up.
PROPOSITION 65
In 1986, a law called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic En-
forcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) was passed. It requires
California to make a list of chemicals that can cause cancer,
birth defects, or other reproductive harm. The Proposition 65
list contains many different chemicals, including dyes, sol-
vents, pesticides, drugs, and food additives. If a pesticide you
use is on the Proposition 65 list, your employer must warn you
if you could be exposed to enough pesticide to cause a signif-
icant health risk. Your employer may also choose to tell you if
a pesticide on the Proposition 65 list has been sprayed, even if
health problems are not likely. As stated above, your employer
must keep information on each pesticide application at the
address listed on page 2 and allow you to look at it. If you are
not sure of this location, ask your employer.
You can nd the list of pesticides that are on the Proposition
65 list and that might be used in California at http://www.
cdpr.ca.gov/docs/dept/factshts/prop65.htm.
HOW
Safety Tips
TO PROTECT YOUR SKIN
ASE O Y
FIRST AID
ER
•
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
•
Always wash your hands
before eating, drinking,
smoking, chewing gum,
using your phone, or
going to the bathroom
•
Do not cook food with
WHA
wood f
T
ound in the eld
TO DO IN C
•
Pesticides can get on work
clothes and then on your
skin
•
Wash work clothes before
wearing them again
•
Wash work clothes separate
F ILLNESS OR INJUR
from other clothes
•
Take a bath or shower as
soon as you get home from
work and before any
contact with children or
family
•
Wash with soap and water,
and use shampoo on your
hair
•
Put on clean clothes
• Pesticides can get on your skin and clothes when you touch
treated plants, soil, irrigation water, tractors, and other
equipment, on used personal protective equipment, or are
exposed to spray drift
• They can move from your clothes and onto your skin
• Some pesticides can easily go through your skin and make
you sick
• Tell your employer immediately if you are sick (headache,
stomach ache, vomiting, dizzy) or hurt at work
• He or she must make sure you are taken to a doctor
ALWAYS REMEMB
Have someone else drive you to the doctor if you are sick or
injured. DO NOT DRIVE YOURSELF
• 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
• Wash if your eyes or skin
begin to itch or burn
• Use lots of water
• Tell your employer you
should go to a doctor
• Never put pesticides in food
or drink containers
• Do not take farm pesticides
or their containers home
• Keep children and family
away from pesticides
• Follow directions about
keeping out of treated
areas and application
exclusion zones
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR SKIN
WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ILLNESS
FIRST AID
ALWAYS REMEMBER
STAY SAFE!
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