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Crop advisers impacted by requirements in new USEPA Worker Protection Standard
Author(s) -
Werts Peter,
Bernard Thomas,
Green Thomas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
crops and soils
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2325-3606
pISSN - 0162-5098
DOI - 10.2134/cs2017.50.0313
Subject(s) - pesticide , integrated pest management , crop protection , agricultural science , farm workers , reading (process) , business , engineering , toxicology , environmental science , agronomy , agriculture , geography , agroforestry , political science , biology , law , archaeology
The USEPA Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is designed to help make sure farmworkers, pesticide applicators, and others—including crop advisers—entering fields recently treated with pesticides are properly trained to reduce the risk of pesticide exposure. This article addresses the new WPS requirements that go into effect this year and next. Earn 1 CEU in Integrated Pest Management by reading this article and taking the quiz at www.agronomy.org/education/classroom/classes/481