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 6761 - Hazard Communication for Fieldworkers

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 Whenever employees are working as fieldworkers in a treated field, the employer
					 shall display at the worksite and all permanent decontamination facilities and
					 decontamination facilities servicing 11 or more fieldworkers, a copy of a
					 completed written Hazard Communication Information for Employees Working in
					 Fields (Pesticide Safety Information Series leaflet A-9). Any changes to the
					 name, address, or telephone number of the facility providing emergency medical
					 care must be updated on the Pesticide Information Series leaflet A-9 within 24
					 hours of the change. In the event that fieldworkers gather at a central
					 location prior to transportation to the worksite, the Pesticide Safety
					 Information Series leaflet A-9, required to be at the worksite, may instead be
					 displayed at that central location. Pesticide Safety Information Series leaflet
					 A-9 shall be written by the department in English and Spanish. Upon request,
					 the employer shall read to the requesting employee, in a language
					 understandable to that employee, Pesticide Safety Information Series leaflet
					 A-9. Pesticide Safety Information Series leaflets are available from the
					 Department.
(b) The operator of the
					 property shall maintain in a central location at the workplace accessible to
					 employees, including the employees of labor contractors, who enter a treated
					 field, the following:
(1) pesticide use
					 records specified in section
					 6624 (b), (c), (d), and
					 (e) for pesticides that have been applied to
					 the field within the last two years;
(2) a Safety Data Sheet (SDS), as specified
					 in Title 8, California Code of Regulations, section
					 5194, for each pesticide listed in
					 the pesticide use records referred to in subsection (b)(1). If the SDS is not
					 provided by the registrant of a pesticide, the operator of the property shall:
(A) within 7 working days of a request for a
					 SDS from an employee, employee representative or employee's physician, make
					 written inquiry to the registrant of the pesticide, asking that a SDS be sent
					 to the operator of the property. If the operator of the property has made a
					 written inquiry within the last 12 months as to whether the pesticide is
					 subject to the requirement for a SDS or the operator of the property has made a
					 written inquiry within the last 6 months requesting new, revised or later
					 information on the SDS, the operator of the property need not make additional
					 written inquiry. A copy of the written inquiry shall immediately be sent to the
					 person requesting the SDS;
(B)
					 notify the requester of the availability of the SDS or provide a copy of the
					 SDS to the requester within 15 days of receipt of the SDS from the registrant;
					 and
(C) if a response has not been
					 received from the registrant within 25 working days of the date the inquiry was
					 made, send the Department a copy of the inquiry with a notation that no
					 response has been received. The operator of the property is not precluded from
					 obtaining and providing the SDS utilizing other more expedient methods in lieu
					 of those provided in this subsection.