WI PESTICIDE APPLICATOR EVALUATION TEST
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Who must keep records of application and for how long - ✔✔Any commercial
applicator for hire, or anyone applying RUP( Restriced Use Pesticides) and records
must be kept for at least 2 years and 3 years for atrazine
✔✔What Must be the contents of your pesticide application records - ✔✔name of
person applying, name and address of customer, crop/comdity/site treated, specific
description of application site, date and time, product name and EPA number, quantity
used, mixing and loading locations,
✔✔Special rules that apply to atrazine - ✔✔it contaminates the ground water, ATCP 30
limits the amount that can be applied in a given year, some areas it is prohibited, soil
type plays a big part.
✔✔Rules you may have to follow when transporting hazardous material - ✔✔hazard
material training, carry emergency response info, carry shipping papers, placard your
vehicle, Have a CDL ( also good to have things in case a spill like PPE, Soap/water,
shovel,dirt , floor dry, fire estinguisher, )
✔✔How to know when you need to follow transportation rules. - ✔✔Check
transportation section in SDS sheet,
✔✔What is the purpose of Worker Protection Standard and what are it's three goals -
✔✔to reduce the risk of pesticide poisoning and injury among agricultural workers and
pesticide handlers.
Goals-
Inform workers and handlers about pesticide saftey.
Provide protections from psticide exposures
Mitigate expousers that do occur
,✔✔Who must Comply with WPS and who is protected - ✔✔if you opperate or employee
people that apply pesticides that are usd in an agricultural setting and or preform task
as a crop advisor on any ag establishment. The employees that work for the business
✔✔According to WPS Define
Comercial Pesticide handling establishment
commercial pesticide handling employeer
handler - ✔✔an ag business hired to apply pesticides or give crop advise
any one who employess people that handle pestcides or advise
people who mix load, apply, and work on equipment
✔✔Recognize that employees who are certified pesticide applicators do not need to
recive WPS specific saftey training - ✔✔certified pesticide applicator counts as WPS
training
✔✔What safety training must an employer give its handlers - ✔✔they must train, inform,
labeling info and exange info
✔✔explain the employer info exchange rule - ✔✔when somone is hired to apply
pesticides the employer must exhange info, so that they can protect employyes
✔✔Describe requirments for providing employees with PPE - ✔✔employers must
provide PPE Required by the label other than shits,pant,socks,shoes etc.
✔✔Requirements involved when workers need to wear a respirator - ✔✔employer must
provide, Medical evaluation, annual fit test, and annual respirator training
✔✔What must employers provide for decontamination supplies and where the decom.
sites must be located - ✔✔running water or atleast 3 gallons, soapand towells, change
of clothes, eye flush stuff.
easily assemble within 1/4 mile or at leas the nearest vehicle
✔✔Employers responsibility in case on an emergency and what should be brought to a
medical facility. - ✔✔transport to medical facility, provide info such as
product name, EPA number, and active ingredients
how the pesticide was used
the circumstance of expouser
saftey data sheets for the product
✔✔A given pesticide active ingredient will______. - ✔✔Always have the same common
name
✔✔If you are required to keep a record of application of a pesticide you must keep the
record on file for at least_______. - ✔✔2 years
, ✔✔Commercial not for hire applicators do not have to be certified to apply_____. -
✔✔Nonrestriced use pesticides only for their employers property
✔✔The most common route of expoure to pesticide handlers is ______ exposure. -
✔✔Dermal (through the skin)
✔✔Wearing the proper PPE will ______ Pesticides - ✔✔Reduce your exposure to
✔✔Learn how to read labels - ✔✔Learn how to read labels
✔✔Describe the main purpose of a pesticide label and it's legal implications for an
applicator. - ✔✔the label is a method of communication between the manufacture and
the user, the user is responsible to follow the label in all areas, the label is the law
✔✔Describe the deference between labels and labeling - ✔✔label is the information
printed on or attached to the pesticide container its self. Labeling is the label its self plus
the all the other info with the product such as SDS, brouchers, leaflets
✔✔5 times when you should read the label - ✔✔before you buy
before you store
before you mix and use
before you clean
before you dispose
✔✔List info you can find on a label - ✔✔trade name/brand name.
manufacture name and address
Emergence contact info
EPA registration number
saftey info
signal words
ingredents
uses
storage info
PPE
etc.
✔✔List the signal words you my find on a label - ✔✔DANGER-POISON
DANGER
WARNING
CAUTION
✔✔Define what a signal word is and how it realates to the realitive toxicity of a pesticide
- ✔✔A signal word indicates the relative acute toxicity of a product to human's and
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Who must keep records of application and for how long - ✔✔Any commercial
applicator for hire, or anyone applying RUP( Restriced Use Pesticides) and records
must be kept for at least 2 years and 3 years for atrazine
✔✔What Must be the contents of your pesticide application records - ✔✔name of
person applying, name and address of customer, crop/comdity/site treated, specific
description of application site, date and time, product name and EPA number, quantity
used, mixing and loading locations,
✔✔Special rules that apply to atrazine - ✔✔it contaminates the ground water, ATCP 30
limits the amount that can be applied in a given year, some areas it is prohibited, soil
type plays a big part.
✔✔Rules you may have to follow when transporting hazardous material - ✔✔hazard
material training, carry emergency response info, carry shipping papers, placard your
vehicle, Have a CDL ( also good to have things in case a spill like PPE, Soap/water,
shovel,dirt , floor dry, fire estinguisher, )
✔✔How to know when you need to follow transportation rules. - ✔✔Check
transportation section in SDS sheet,
✔✔What is the purpose of Worker Protection Standard and what are it's three goals -
✔✔to reduce the risk of pesticide poisoning and injury among agricultural workers and
pesticide handlers.
Goals-
Inform workers and handlers about pesticide saftey.
Provide protections from psticide exposures
Mitigate expousers that do occur
,✔✔Who must Comply with WPS and who is protected - ✔✔if you opperate or employee
people that apply pesticides that are usd in an agricultural setting and or preform task
as a crop advisor on any ag establishment. The employees that work for the business
✔✔According to WPS Define
Comercial Pesticide handling establishment
commercial pesticide handling employeer
handler - ✔✔an ag business hired to apply pesticides or give crop advise
any one who employess people that handle pestcides or advise
people who mix load, apply, and work on equipment
✔✔Recognize that employees who are certified pesticide applicators do not need to
recive WPS specific saftey training - ✔✔certified pesticide applicator counts as WPS
training
✔✔What safety training must an employer give its handlers - ✔✔they must train, inform,
labeling info and exange info
✔✔explain the employer info exchange rule - ✔✔when somone is hired to apply
pesticides the employer must exhange info, so that they can protect employyes
✔✔Describe requirments for providing employees with PPE - ✔✔employers must
provide PPE Required by the label other than shits,pant,socks,shoes etc.
✔✔Requirements involved when workers need to wear a respirator - ✔✔employer must
provide, Medical evaluation, annual fit test, and annual respirator training
✔✔What must employers provide for decontamination supplies and where the decom.
sites must be located - ✔✔running water or atleast 3 gallons, soapand towells, change
of clothes, eye flush stuff.
easily assemble within 1/4 mile or at leas the nearest vehicle
✔✔Employers responsibility in case on an emergency and what should be brought to a
medical facility. - ✔✔transport to medical facility, provide info such as
product name, EPA number, and active ingredients
how the pesticide was used
the circumstance of expouser
saftey data sheets for the product
✔✔A given pesticide active ingredient will______. - ✔✔Always have the same common
name
✔✔If you are required to keep a record of application of a pesticide you must keep the
record on file for at least_______. - ✔✔2 years
, ✔✔Commercial not for hire applicators do not have to be certified to apply_____. -
✔✔Nonrestriced use pesticides only for their employers property
✔✔The most common route of expoure to pesticide handlers is ______ exposure. -
✔✔Dermal (through the skin)
✔✔Wearing the proper PPE will ______ Pesticides - ✔✔Reduce your exposure to
✔✔Learn how to read labels - ✔✔Learn how to read labels
✔✔Describe the main purpose of a pesticide label and it's legal implications for an
applicator. - ✔✔the label is a method of communication between the manufacture and
the user, the user is responsible to follow the label in all areas, the label is the law
✔✔Describe the deference between labels and labeling - ✔✔label is the information
printed on or attached to the pesticide container its self. Labeling is the label its self plus
the all the other info with the product such as SDS, brouchers, leaflets
✔✔5 times when you should read the label - ✔✔before you buy
before you store
before you mix and use
before you clean
before you dispose
✔✔List info you can find on a label - ✔✔trade name/brand name.
manufacture name and address
Emergence contact info
EPA registration number
saftey info
signal words
ingredents
uses
storage info
PPE
etc.
✔✔List the signal words you my find on a label - ✔✔DANGER-POISON
DANGER
WARNING
CAUTION
✔✔Define what a signal word is and how it realates to the realitive toxicity of a pesticide
- ✔✔A signal word indicates the relative acute toxicity of a product to human's and
