First Aid/Safety
PPE stands for
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
This is the #1 way to prevent pesticide spills.
What is proper training in handling pesticides?
The highest risk of pesticide exposure occurs during this activity.
What is mixing and loading?
The part of your body that gets the most exposure when handling pesticides.
What is your skin? Specifically hands and forearms.
Food, drinks, feed, veterinary supplies or medication, seed, clothing, and/or PPE should not be kept here.
What is the pesticide storage site.
Pesticides can enter the human body by these four routes of exposure.
What are skin, mouth, eyes, lungs?
This term is used to describe the part of a pesticide that remains in the environment after an application or spill?
What is residue?
Before purchasing, handling, applying, storing, or disposing of a pesticide you should do this.
What is read the label?
What is long-sleeved shirt, long pants, shoes, and socks?
Information on how to store and dispose of a pesticide is located here.
What is the pesticide product label?
Working inside an enclosed cab allows you to wear less PPE than the label specifies.
False
List the signal word in order of least hazardous to most hazardous
What is Caution, Warning, Danger, Danger-Poison?
This is the optimum wind speed for making a pesticide applicator.
What is 3-6 mph?
PVC, nitrile, barrier-laminate, neoprene
What are examples of chemical resistant materials?
Pesticides should always be stored in this.
What is their original container?
Personal protective equipment worn while handing pesticides can increase the risk of this illness by limiting the body's ability to cool down.
What is heat stress?
The three "C"s of pesticide spill management.
What is control, contain, and clean-up the spill?
This website can be used to find geographically specific pesticide use restrictions for the protection of threatened and endangered species and their designated critical habitats.
What is Bulletins Live! Two
(www.epa.gov/endangered-species/bulletins-live-two-view-bulletins)
After handling or applying pesticides, you should do this before eating, drinking, smoking, or using the bathroom.
What is wash your hands?
This is the amount of pesticides you should have on hand.
What is only the amount of pesticide that you need for a specific job or for the current growing season?
1-800-222-1222 is this agencies phone number.
What is the National Poison Control Center?
Pesticide spills are reported to this agency within 48 hours of the spill.
What is VDACS-OPS?
The proper method of disposing of pesticide containers.
What is while wearing all PPE, fill pesticide container about 1/4 full of water, close it tightly and shake it, pour all rinse water into tank mix to be applied with pesticide, repeat at least 2 more times then slice container and place in recycling?
This piece of PPE reduces dermal exposure by 99% when worn during mixing, loading, and applying.
What are chemical resistant gloves?
This can cause physical or chemical changes to pesticide products. Such changes may make the product ineffective and/or cause plant injury.
What are temperature extremes?