Agricultural Worker Protection

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Selected Worker Protection web sites and publications

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1. How to Comply with the Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticides: What Employers Need to Know - EPA 735-B-05-002, new as of September 2005.
   
2. Worker Protection Standard 2005 Update Quick Reference Guide - EPA. PDF format.
   
3. WPS and Recent Amendments - links to complete Worker Protection Standard and recent amendments and exceptions.
   
4. EPA/OPP Pesticide Programs on Worker Safety - EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. Summary of the WPS Standard. In-house links to several aspects of the WPS. Includes ammendments and exceptions.
   
5. EPA-WPS - WPS with recent revisions from the EPA.
   
6. EPA Worker Protection Standard Publications - Some are PDF documents, some are HTML and some are order only fro the The National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center
   
7. EPA Ag Center Compliance Fact Sheets - Fact sheets on compliance with EPA agricultural programs, especially the Worker Protection Standard (WPS). Easy-to-understand explanations of many compliance-related subjects. Fact Sheets are in HTML, PDF
   
8. WPS Revisions - (PDF) A Summary of Revisions to the Workers Protection Standard by Dr. O. Norman Nesheim, Pesticide Education Office, IFAS, Univ. of Florida.
   
9. EPA Worker Protection Standard Danger Poster - (PDF)
   
10. A Guide to Laundering Pesticide Contaminated Clothing - (English/PDF)
    
11. Un Guia para Lavar Ropa Contaminada con Pesticidas - (Spanish/PDF)
    
12. The Farmworkers' Guide to Laundering Work Clothes - (Eng/Span/PDF)
    
13. Protect Yourself from Pesticides: Guide for Agricultural Workers (Protejase de los Pesticidas: Guia para los Trabajadores Agricolas) - Publication in English and Spanish. Order this publication from the National Service Center for Environmental Publications. Search for this publication using EPA Publication Number: 735B93002.
    
14. "We discovered that S.C. peach growers are well informed about the WPS": Farm Worker Safety in South Carolina - item from Alphabet Soup, Information Update from EPA Region 4 Pesticides Section. October 2005. [EPA Region 4 serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee]
    
15. Protect Yourself from Pesticides: Guide for Pesticide Handlers - Publication in English and Spanish. Order this publication from the National Service Center for Environmental Publications. Search for this publication using EPA Publication Number: 735B93003.
    
16. GEMPLERs - Catalog carrying personal protection equipment and Worker Protection Standard Training Materials
    
17. CHILDREN & PESTICIDES (Agriculture) - Pesticides: Improvements Needed to Ensure the Safety of Farmworkers and Their Children. Government Accounting Office (Letter Report, 03/14/2000, GAO/RCED-00-40):
    Summary; PDF
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18. Progressive Symptoms of Methyl Parathion Exposure
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