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How can you protect yourself from pesticides?
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if you see this
sign, or ones
like it, keep out!
This sign means that
pesticides are in the
area. You must have
special training and
protection to go into the
area.
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How can you protect yourself from pesticides?
Stay out of
areas your boss
tells you not to
enter...
Even if no sign is posted.
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How can you protect yourself from pesticides?
Never take
pesticides or
pesticide
containers
home from
work.
They are not safe for use
around the home.
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How can you protect yourself from pesticides?
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Keep children
away from areas
where
pesticides might
be.
At home, keep
pesticides away from
children.
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How can you protect youreetf frorn pesticides?
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After work each
day, wash your
whole body,
including your
hair.
Use plenty of soap and
water. Then put on
clean clothes.
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• Keep dirty work
clothes away
from non-work
clothes and
from the family
laundry.
Pesticides may get on
your clothes at work.
Wash your work clothes,
including your cotton
gloves before using
them again.
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Pesticides are
applied in
different ways:
• Liquids or sprays.
• Powders or granules.
• Gases.
Pesticides may be in
many places. Pesticides
may be on plants and on
the soil. Often you can't
tell pesticide are there.
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Where are pesticides?
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be in irrigation
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Where are pesticides?
Pesticides may
be in storage
areas and in
places where
pesticides are
mixed and
loaded.
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Wtiere are pesticides?
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pesticides drift
from where they
are being
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Pesticides can
hurt you if:
• They get on your skin.
• They get in your eyes.
• You breathe them.
• You swallow them.
Workers are hurt most
often by getting
pesticides on their skin.
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Pesticides may
hurt you right
away.
If pesticides get on or in
you, they may make
you sick right away, or
hours later.
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Pesticides may
cause skin
rashes or hurt
your nose,
throat, or eyes.
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make you feel
sick in different
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• Other signs of
pesticide
poisoning are:
• Drooling.
• Trouble breathing.
• Very small pupils of
your eyes.
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How can pesticides hurt you?
Pesticides may
harm some
people more
than others.
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How can pesticides hurt you?
Getting
pesticides on or
in you may have
effects after
months or years
have passed.
Delayed effects may be
cancer, or harm to your
kidneys, liver, or
nervous system.
Another delayed effect
may be birth defects, if
pregnant wo: \en are
exposed to pesticides.
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What If You Get Sick at Work?
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Medical help is
listed on or near
a pesticide-
safety poster at
your work.
Make sure you know
where this and the •
nearest phone are.
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What if you get sick at work?
If you or
someone else
gets sick while
working, tell
your boss right
away.
Your boss must make
sure you get to medical
help if you think you've
been poisoned at work
by pesticides.
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What if you get sick at work?
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Your boss will
provide
information
about the
pesticide.
Your boss must give you
or your doctor the name
and other information
about the pesticide that
might have made you
sick.
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if a pesticide
gets on you, get
it off right away!
1. Take off clothing
that has pesticide
on it.
2. Rinse skin right
away with water.
3. Wash with soap and
water as soon as
possible.
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If you begin to
feel sick or your
eyes, skin, or
throat hurt, go
to a doctor right
away.
Your boss must make
sure you are taken to a
clinic or doctor.
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I If you or
someone else
swallows a
pesticide, get
medical help
right away!
1. Call a poison control
center or doctor, or
go to the doctor if
it's faster. Give the
name of the
pesticide and the
first aid 'ircctions
from the label.
2. If you can't call for
help, or while you
wait for help,
follow the first aid
steps on the label.
3. Get to a doctor as
soon as possible!
Have the name of
the pesticide with
you.
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What if pesticides get on or in you?
Leave closed
areas right away
if you start to
feel sick or
dizzy.
If you are working in an
enclosed area, like a
greenhouse, get to fresh
air right away if you
begin lo fee! dizzy or
have trouble breathing.
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• II someone gets
sick from
breathing a
pesticide,..
t. Get them to fresh air
right away.
2. Loosen their
clothing.
3. If not breathing, give
mouth-to-mouth
(CPR).
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if someone
passes out in an
enclosed area,
get help— don't
go in!
Never try to rescue
someone who has
passed out in a
greenhouse or other
enclosed area unless you
have special training
and breathing
equipment. Find
someone ^.,0 can help.
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happen fast!
Rinse your eyes
for 15 minutes.
If a pesticide gets in
your eyes, hold them
open and rinse them
with a gentle stream of
cool water. Rinse for 15
minutes if possible.
Then go to a doctor.
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What if pesticides get on or in you?
Get medical
help!
In all cases of pesticide
poisoning, get medical
help as soon as possible.
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The Law Helps Protect You!
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Your boss must
tell you about
pesticide use at
work.
Your boss must: Warn you
about areas where
pesticides are to be applied
and areas you may not enter.
Your boss must post: The
name of the pesticide,
exactly where it was applied,
when it was applied, the
restricted entry interval, and
when the workers may
return to ,the work area.
This information has to be
written and posted in a
central location that is easily
accessible to all workers.
before the pesticides are
applied.
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The law helps protect you!
Your boss must
not let you work
In some areas.
Your boss must, not lot
you work in an area
where:
• IVstictdcs arc being
applied.
• Or pesticides may
drift onto you,
After a pesticide is used,
you may not enter a field
during the Restricted Entry
Interval (RED.
The laws set different
safety periods or REIs for
different pesticides.
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The (aw helps protect you!
I You must have
special training
and protection
for some jobs.
Without extra training
and protection, your
boss must not let you:
• Mix, load, apply, or
handle pesticides.
• Work as a flagger.
• Work in an area
where entry is
restricted.
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The law helps protect youl
Your boss must
not punish you
for trying to
follow these
rules.
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Help protect yourself!
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I Remember:
• Wear clothes that
cover your skin.
• Stay out of areas as
instructed by your
boss.
• Move a way if
pesticides drift into
the area where you are
working.
• Wash with soap and .
water after work and
before eating,
drinking, smoking, or
using the toilet.
Your boss must:
• Give you information
about pesticides
applied in or near
areas where you work.
• Be sure you are
trained in
pesticide safety.
• Provide you with
soap, water, and
towels.
• Make sure you get to
medical help if you
think you've been
poisoned at work
by pesticides.
• Provide you with
extra training if
. you work in areas
where entry is
restricted, work
as a flagger,
mix, load, apply,
or handle pesticides.
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