Open AccessWorker Protection Standard: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Author(s) -
Frederick M. Fishel
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
edis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2576-0009
DOI - 10.32473/edis-pi156-2006
Subject(s) - personal protective equipment , pesticide , business , farm workers , agriculture , production (economics) , environmental protection , agricultural science , engineering , environmental health , environmental science , geography , medicine , economics , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , macroeconomics , pathology , agronomy , biology
The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is a Federal regulation designed to protect agricultural workers (people involved in the production of agricultural plants) and pesticide handlers (people mixing, loading, or applying pesticides or doing other tasks involving direct contact with pesticides). It has been in full implementation since 1995. This document is PI-119, one of a series of the Pesticide Information Office, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date April 2006.