The Worker Protection Standard is for Agricultural Workers* & Handlers** of Agricultural Use Pesticides. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) through the Code of Federal ...

The lack of respirators, needed to apply certain pesticides, is cause for concern in farm country, but how much of a concern depends on whom you ask and where they’re located. “Yes ...

as a minimum age for those handling pesticides; and eliminates a requirement that growers display in a central location information on pesticides being applied. “As expected, there are some genuine ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday backtracked on its suspension of a chemical requirement that aimed to help farmworkers handling toxic pesticides. The EPA announced an intent ...

Ivy spent 17 days as a truck driver and pesticide handler for Applebee Aviation before providing hundreds of worksite photos and videos to the media and alleging the company's pesticide operations ...

The Environmental Protection Agency administers a Worker Protection Standard meant to regulate pesticides and protect workers and handlers. Yet the agency maintains no comprehensive database to ...

Tanimura & Antle faces potential fines up to $5,000 after failing to immediately take 17 fieldworkers to the hospital when they became ill just over a year ago, according to a county report.

Under state law, pesticides cannot be applied within a quarter-mile of schools and daycare centers during school hours. Companies handling pesticides must notify schools if they do spread ...

Better education and training of farmers and pesticide handlers may help to reduce asthma risk.”The study consisted of 19,704 farmers, 441 of which had asthma. Farmers who have experienced high ...

The assessment and reduction of non-dietary (dermal and respiratory) exposure of humans who come into contact with agricultural pesticides such as handlers/operators, workers, residents ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture secured a restraining order this week to stop a company from spraying pesticides commercially without a license. Last month the agency fined Applebee Aviation ...