California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 6 - Pesticides and Pest Control Operations › Chapter 3 - Pest Control Operations › Subchapter 3 - Pesticide Worker Safety › Article 3 - Field Worker Safety › Section 6764 - Fieldworker Training

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
					 employer shall assure that each employee assigned to work in a treated field
					 has been trained within the last 12 months, in a manner the employee
					 understands, before beginning work in the treated field.
(b) The training shall include the following
					 information:
(1) Where and in what forms
					 pesticides may be encountered, including treated surfaces in the field,
					 residues on clothing, personal protective equipment, application and
					 chemigation equipment, irrigation water, and drift;
(2) Potential hazards that pesticides present
					 to fieldworkers and their families including acute, chronic, and delayed
					 effects, and sensitization effects;
(3) Routes by which pesticides can enter the
					 body;
(4) Signs and symptoms of
					 overexposure;
(5) Routine
					 decontamination procedures when working in a treated field and the employer's
					 responsibility to provide decontamination supplies:
(A) Wash hands before eating, drinking, using
					 the toilet, chewing gum, or using tobacco;
(B) Thoroughly wash or shower with soap and
					 water; and
(C) Change into clean
					 clothes as soon as possible.
(6) Wear work clothing that protects the body
					 from pesticide residues when working in treated fields, and wash work clothes
					 separately from other laundry before wearing them again;
(7) How Safety Data Sheets provide hazard,
					 emergency medical treatment, and other information about the pesticides with
					 which they may come in contact;
(8)
					 The hazard communication program requirements of sections
					 6761 and
					 6761.1;
(9) First aid and emergency decontamination
					 procedures including emergency eye flushing techniques, and if pesticides are
					 spilled or sprayed on the body to wash immediately with decontamination
					 supplies and as soon as possible, wash or shower with soap and water and change
					 into clean clothes;
(10) How and
					 when to obtain emergency medical care;
(11) Prevention, recognition, and first aid
					 for heat-related illness in accordance with Title 8 of the California Code of
					 Regulations, section
					 3395;
(12) Restricted entry intervals and what
					 posting means, including both California and federal field posting sign
					 formats;
(13) Employer
					 responsibility to keep workers out of application exclusion zones;
(14) Employees must be at least 18 years old
					 to perform early-entry activities. The responsibility of the employer to
					 provide specific information to the employees before directing them to perform
					 early-entry activities;
(15)
					 Employers are prohibited from allowing or directing any employee to handle
					 pesticides unless the employee has been trained as a handler;
(16) Do not to take pesticides or pesticide
					 containers home from work;
(17)
					 Potential hazards to children and pregnant women from pesticide exposures,
					 including that:
(A) Children and nonworking
					 family members should keep away from pesticide-treated fields;
(B) After working in pesticide-treated
					 fields, remove boots or shoes before entering the home and remove work clothes;
					 and
(C) Employees should wash or
					 shower before physical contact with children or family
					 members.
(18) How to
					 report suspected pesticide use violations; and
(19) Employee rights, including the right:
(A) To personally receive information about
					 pesticides to which he or she may be exposed;
(B) For his or her physician or an employee
					 representative designated in writing to receive information about pesticides to
					 which he or she may be exposed;
(C)
					 To be protected against retaliatory action due to the exercise of any of his or
					 her rights; and
(D) To report
					 suspected use violations to the Department or county agricultural
					 commissioners.