This act directly requires housekeeping, showers, and other practices to prevent exposure to employees' families. This act regulates the release of hazardous substances to the environment from active and abandoned sites. Under it, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry can consider workers' contaminated homes as sites where hazardous wastes have been released, and limit and control contamination there. This act grants the Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate the use of pesticides. The EPA has limited authority to prevent workers and farm owners from contaminating their homes.
Some states do require reporting of cases of poisoning by lead and pesticides.
Employees and employers can both seek additional information from a health care provider skilled in occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, or a similar field. 97-125 Information available on this page has been reported to USFA by various organizations or obtained from government web sites. USFA is making this information available for informational purposes only.