It is lengthy but has a clickable table of contents to facilitate navigation. There is no job simple enough that it can't be done wrong. The 368-page volume shares 1996 testimony and letters from farmworkers, farmers, and others in eight states. Some farmworkers sleep in treated fields. Eye related pesticide problems are seen most frequently.
Many growers bring workers to the clinic.
Some growers contribute financially to the clinic. The records must be complete and reliable. If access to the pesticide use records is uncontrolled, their accuracy becomes uncertain. Use information may be inadvertently misfiled, or the copy of a desired record may be removed by an interested party. A farm labor contractor in the Sacramento Valley has about 800 workers ready for WPS fieldworker training.