Pesticide Label
These two items on the label that allow you to quickly identify the pesticide product, and what’s in it.
What are the Pesticide Brand Name and Active Ingredient?
This protects workers from inhalation hazards.
What is a respirator?
These are four routes of entry that pesticides can enter your body.
What are Oral, Dermal, Ocular, and Inhalation?
VMD
What is the acronym for Volume Median Diameter?
Headache, Dizziness, Fatigue.
What are some possible symptoms of pesticide over-exposure or poisoning?
Caution, Warning, and Danger.
What are the Pesticide Label Signal Words?
This should be performed every time you don a respirator to ensure the respirator is positioned correctly on the face and creating a good seal.
What is a respirator fit check?
Expressed in mg. of pesticide per Kg. of body weight, this is the amount of pesticide that will cause mortality in 50% of a test population of lab animals.
What is LD50?
RUP
What is the acronym for Restricted Use Pesticide?
You should do this before performing other functions, after you've handled or been exposed to pesticides.
What is to wash your hands and face with soap and water?
This number on the label allows the state pesticide enforcement agency to identify a pesticide formulation, and the manufacturer of the formulation (among other things).
What is the pesticide EPA Registration Number?
In addition to meeting impact resistance standards, protective eyewear must provide eye protection at these three areas around the eyes.
What are the Font, Brow and Temple areas?
Signal words “Caution” “Warning” and “Danger” refer to these three pesticide toxicity categories, respectively.
What is:
Category 3
Category 2
Category 1
NPIC
What is the acronym for National Pesticide Information Center?
If you get pesticide in your eye you should flush the eye with cool water for this amount of time.
What is 15 minutes?
2 of the things you should check for in the "Directions for Use" section before you mix or apply the pesticide.
What are the Use Sites and Use Rates?
(Dilution, mixing instructions, application volume, use restrictions, are also acceptable.)
These two pieces of clothing are required to be worn when applying pesticide, in addition to wearing a long-sleeved shirt and long pants.
What are Shoes and Socks?
Expressed as mg/Kg, this is the oral LD50 range for pesticides with signal word Caution.
What is >500 up to 5,000 mg/Kg?
NIOSH
What is the acronym for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health?
A very favorable condition for Ground ULV application in which air temperature increases with height.
What is a temperature inversion or inversion condition?
This is the Label Section where you should find PPE requirements.
What is the PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS section?
Pesticide Respiratory Protection must be approved by this federal institute.
What is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health?
In addition to oral and dermal LD50, and inhalation LC50, these are two other health effects that are considered when determining a Pesticide’s Toxicity Category and Signal Word.
What are Skin and Eye Effects?
NPDES
What is the acronym for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Common ways unprotected workers get exposed to pesticides include. splashes, spills, sprays, dust, drift, and exposure to this.
What is Pesticide Residue?