Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 437 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SERVICES, OREGON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH DIVISION › Division 4 - AGRICULTURE › Section 437-004-6401 - Effective dates for worker training programs in Oregon

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
Beginning on January 1, 2018, training programs for workers
				must include, at a minimum, all of the following topics:
(1) The responsibility of agricultural
			 employers to provide workers and handlers with information and protections
			 designed to reduce work-related pesticide exposures and illnesses. This
			 includes ensuring workers and handlers have been trained on pesticide safety,
			 providing pesticide safety and application and hazard information,
			 decontamination supplies and emergency medical assistance, and notifying
			 workers of restrictions during applications and on entering pesticide treated
			 areas. A worker or handler may designate in writing a representative to request
			 access to pesticide application and hazard information.
(2) How to recognize and understand the
			 meaning of the posted warning signs used for notifying workers of restrictions
			 on entering pesticide treated areas on the establishment.
(3) How to follow directions and/or signs
			 about keeping out of pesticide treated areas subject to a restricted-entry
			 interval and application exclusion zones.
(4) Where and in what forms pesticides may be
			 encountered during work activities, and potential sources of pesticide exposure
			 on the agricultural establishment. This includes exposure to pesticide residues
			 that may be on or in plants, soil, tractors, application and chemigation
			 equipment, or used personal protective equipment, and that pesticides may drift
			 through the air from nearby applications or be in irrigation water.
(5) Potential hazards from toxicity and
			 exposure that pesticides present to workers and their families, including acute
			 and chronic effects, delayed effects, and sensitization.
(6) Routes through which pesticides can enter
			 the body.
(7) Signs and symptoms
			 of common types of pesticide poisoning.
(8) Emergency first aid for pesticide
			 injuries or poisonings.
(9)
			 Routine and emergency decontamination procedures, including emergency eye
			 flushing techniques, and if pesticides are spilled or sprayed on the body to
			 use decontamination supplies to wash immediately or rinse off in the nearest
			 clean water, including springs, streams, lakes or other sources if more readily
			 available than decontamination supplies, and as soon as possible, to wash or
			 shower with soap and water, shampoo hair, and change into clean clothes.
(10) How and when to obtain
			 emergency medical care.
(11)
			 Instructions to wear work clothing that protects the body from pesticide
			 residues and wash hands before eating, drinking, using chewing gum or tobacco,
			 or using the toilet, when working in pesticide treated areas.
(12) Instructions to wash or shower with soap
			 and water, shampoo hair, and change into clean clothes as soon as possible
			 after working in pesticide treated areas.
(13) Information about the potential hazards
			 from pesticide residues on clothing.
(14) Wash work clothes before wearing them
			 again and wash them separately from other clothes.
(15) Do not take pesticides or pesticide
			 containers used at work to your home.
(16) Safety data sheets provide hazard,
			 emergency medical treatment and other information about the pesticides used on
			 the establishment they may come in contact with. The responsibility of
			 agricultural employers to do all of the following:
(a) Display safety data sheets for all
			 pesticides used on the establishment.
(b) Provide workers and handlers information
			 about the location of the safety data sheets on the establishment.
(c) Provide workers and handlers unimpeded
			 access to safety data sheets during normal work hours.