QAL Laws & Regs Exam Prep (California) Questions &
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Passed by the CA legislature and regulations are adopted by DPR to carry out
laws
Remember is the Department of Pesticide Regulation
The difference between CA laws and DPR Remember the Legislature makes the Laws (the law: "employers must protect
regulations is that laws are employees from harm on the job")
but the DPR makes specific Regulations (the regulation: "eyewear must be worn,
waterproof gloves, long sleeve shirts, socks, etc." to protect that employee from
harm)
A cooperating agency that helps DPR County Agricultural Commissioner
enforce pesticide use laws and (think of him as the local pesticide "sheriff")
regulations in CA is the
When pesticide registrant (the MAKER of 2 years
that pesticide) allows a pesticide product So if a Company decides they're not making a profit off of a pesticide that has
registration (it's license to sell it in the been licensed/registered in CA and they let their license "lapse/expire", CA lets
state of California) to lapse/end, pest stores sell out of any product they bought for the next 2 years.
control dealers (like Univar) can continue
to sell out their stock of that pesticide
(stuff that they ALREADY bought in order
to sell to pest control companies) for how
many years?
Employee handler pesticide safety C) Recognize the chemical characteristics of the pesticide
training topics (what the boss needs to (you don't NEED to know EXACTLY the chemical makeup of every pesticide just
teach to his techs) do not include how to: like you don't NEED to know every ingredient in Ketchup to understand that it is a
A) confine spray to target area condiment for hotdogs)
B) handle, open and lift containers
C) recognize the chemical characteristics
of the pesticide
D) recognize pesticide poisoning
symptoms
Why is it important for pesticide Because MANY heat stress symptoms are identical to pesticide poisoning
applications that employees receive symptoms.
training on recognizing and avoiding heat
stress?
The potential for pesticides leaching RAINFALL
(soaking ) through the soil into the ground Rain washes pesticide deeper into the soil...we don't want it continuing down
water increases with what? hundreds of feet into our drinking water beneath us)
Arrange these label words from least Caution, Warning, Danger
dangerous to most dangerous:
Warning/Danger/Caution
Which signal world has the word poison DANGER
and a skull and crossbones on the label?
,What are the three signal words Danger, Warning, Caution
commonly used on all pesticides?
The hazard (DANGER) of a pesticide is a A) Harm people or the environment
relative measure of its potential to: (We say something is REALLY DANGEROUS when it can REALLY harm
A) Harm people or the environment people/environment...like NUCLEAR waste...but we tell someone to be "cautious"
B) control the pest not to get soap in their eyes when bathing)
C) damage application equipment
D) bind to soil particles
Which of the following is the MOST Dermal
frequent route of pesticide exposure for Every time you fill up a backpack sprayer, you risk getting that crap on your hands
pesticide handlers? and wrists.
A) Oral (through your mouth)
B) Dermal (through your skin)
C) Inhalation (breathing it in)
D) Eye
Which of the formulation offers the Oil soluble formulations
greatest possibility of dermal (skin) Remember how oil SOAKS into a concrete driveway and stains it ... it's EASILY
absorption? absorbed.
A) Oil soluble formulations (these smell
like gas and look like motor oil)
B) Water-soluble liquids (like the Wisdom
TC you spray)
C) Granulars (like the bifen dry chemical
you apply on lawns)
D) Powder formulations (like a pesticide
dust that we use for roaches)
The most important step when a pesticide C) Prevent people from contacting the spilled pesticide
spill occurs is to: This is your FIRST job...stop others from getting harmed. THEN throw kitty litter on
A) Thoroughly soak the area to dilute the it to stop that spill from moving).
spilled pesticide
B) Direct the spilled pesticide away from
the area
C) Prevent people from contacting the
spilled pesticide
D) Salvage as much as possible of the
spilled pesticide
The surfaces of objects that are B) Inert Ingredients
commonly present in interiorscapes Remember, there are MANY chemicals in Bifen I/T besides Bifenthrin that make it
during a pesticide application that might work...ONE of those chemical CAN accidently stain wood or ruin marble flooring).
become ETCHED (like putting toilet bowl THINK BEFORE YOU SPRAY.
cleaner on a Rolex watch) can be caused
by the
A) Spray pressure being too high
B) Inert ingredients
C) Temperature of the spray
D) Size of the spray droplets
THE EYES = OCULAR
When referring to an ocular pesticide
Look...doctors pay a lot of money for their education and it makes them feel SO
exposure on a pesticide handler, which
MUCH BETTER to say "Ocular Tissue Damage" than to just say "his eyeball got
body part is affected?
scratched").
Because they will ABSORB liquid pesticide.
Why can't leather and cloth gloves be
Yes, we use both kinds of gloves for DRY pesticides...but if the test doesn't say
used for handling liquid pesticides?
"DRY" then ASSUME it means "WET"
, At the end of each WORK PERIOD
How often must Personal Protective Remember, it's not EACH DAY for a part time employee because they don't work
Equipment be cleaned? EACH DAY. We say "Work Period" just so everyone understands that at the end of
a work day, you HAVE to clean your PPE.
An important reason to inspect the area Identify any hazardous material or (I would say) hazardous situations (a dogs
where you will be completing a pesticide presence in a yard is going to be an issue for you)
application is to:
The information necessary for treating Precautionary statement section of the pesticide label
someone exposed to a pesticide is found This IS a test question.
in the:
Class 1 disposal site (landfill)
1. A Class 1 landfill accepts hazardous (pesticide) and non-hazardous (old sofas)
When cleaning up a spilled pesticide the
wastes;
absorbent material and all other
2. A Class 2 landfill accepts "designated" and non-hazardous waste (maybe it will
contaminated materials must be put into
ONLY take hazardous motor oil BUT nothing else hazardous)
sealed containers and transported to a:
3. A Class 3 landfill may accept non-hazardous municipal waste (NOTHING TOXIC
CAN BE DUMPED HERE)
The County Agricultural Commissioner's office
Pesticide spills should be reported to We are talking about having a backpack sprayers worth of chemical go into the
who? storm drain and NOT a cup of pesticide splashing out because you overflowed
your backpack sprayer)
Applying a pesticide that you know is not Intentional misapplication
registered for the site you are treating is (you're doing it and you KNOW it's wrong)
an example of? (Spraying Taurus SC
inside for ants when it is ONLY allowed to
be sprayed outside).
When using poison baits for controlling In tamper resistant bait stations
vertebrate pests, how should you place Remember, rats are VERTEBRATE pests and you only PLACE rat bait in bait
them? stations.
How much active ingredient would there 5lbs
be in a 20 pound bag of 25W This IS a test-like question. If the formulation is 33w it means 33% of the bag is
formulation? (Questions similar to this ACTIVE ingredient. If it says 50w, that means 50% of that bag is ACTIVE chemical.
WILL be on the exam so try to understand So if you have a 20lb bag of pesticide that is 25w formulation, you have to figure
the reasoning of the correct answer) out what is 25% of 20lbs (it's 5).
Which type of application equipment A rope wick
would produce the LEAST amount of Remember that a rope wick is a literal piece rope
pesticide drift? wet with pesticide that you can slap on the bark
A) A rope wick of trees (for example) as you walk through a
b) A backpack sprayer with one nozzle forest killing off trees you don't want.
c) A boom sprayer with 14 nozzles
d) A high pressure hand spray gun
Hymenoptera
Honey bees belong to the insect order of
Yes this is ACTUALLY a test question that is WORTHLESS to 99% of pest control
what?
applicators but you MUST know it.
Cultural Control
Cultural control techniques may include crop
When a farmer disks weeds in his field,
rotation, tillage, timing of planting and
that is an example of what kind of
harvesting, cover crops, choice of plant cultivar,
control?
competition, fertilizer or irrigation practices,
sanitation, and soil solarization
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an Control the pests without disrupting the ecological balance
important pest control strategy because it Look, why NUKE the environment when you can have a client just clean up the
strives to trash on their property to stop rats from going wild?
Which part of the label gives you an The part of the label that has the signal word
indication of the toxicity of the pesticide?
Answers Latest Update
Terms in this set (216)
Passed by the CA legislature and regulations are adopted by DPR to carry out
laws
Remember is the Department of Pesticide Regulation
The difference between CA laws and DPR Remember the Legislature makes the Laws (the law: "employers must protect
regulations is that laws are employees from harm on the job")
but the DPR makes specific Regulations (the regulation: "eyewear must be worn,
waterproof gloves, long sleeve shirts, socks, etc." to protect that employee from
harm)
A cooperating agency that helps DPR County Agricultural Commissioner
enforce pesticide use laws and (think of him as the local pesticide "sheriff")
regulations in CA is the
When pesticide registrant (the MAKER of 2 years
that pesticide) allows a pesticide product So if a Company decides they're not making a profit off of a pesticide that has
registration (it's license to sell it in the been licensed/registered in CA and they let their license "lapse/expire", CA lets
state of California) to lapse/end, pest stores sell out of any product they bought for the next 2 years.
control dealers (like Univar) can continue
to sell out their stock of that pesticide
(stuff that they ALREADY bought in order
to sell to pest control companies) for how
many years?
Employee handler pesticide safety C) Recognize the chemical characteristics of the pesticide
training topics (what the boss needs to (you don't NEED to know EXACTLY the chemical makeup of every pesticide just
teach to his techs) do not include how to: like you don't NEED to know every ingredient in Ketchup to understand that it is a
A) confine spray to target area condiment for hotdogs)
B) handle, open and lift containers
C) recognize the chemical characteristics
of the pesticide
D) recognize pesticide poisoning
symptoms
Why is it important for pesticide Because MANY heat stress symptoms are identical to pesticide poisoning
applications that employees receive symptoms.
training on recognizing and avoiding heat
stress?
The potential for pesticides leaching RAINFALL
(soaking ) through the soil into the ground Rain washes pesticide deeper into the soil...we don't want it continuing down
water increases with what? hundreds of feet into our drinking water beneath us)
Arrange these label words from least Caution, Warning, Danger
dangerous to most dangerous:
Warning/Danger/Caution
Which signal world has the word poison DANGER
and a skull and crossbones on the label?
,What are the three signal words Danger, Warning, Caution
commonly used on all pesticides?
The hazard (DANGER) of a pesticide is a A) Harm people or the environment
relative measure of its potential to: (We say something is REALLY DANGEROUS when it can REALLY harm
A) Harm people or the environment people/environment...like NUCLEAR waste...but we tell someone to be "cautious"
B) control the pest not to get soap in their eyes when bathing)
C) damage application equipment
D) bind to soil particles
Which of the following is the MOST Dermal
frequent route of pesticide exposure for Every time you fill up a backpack sprayer, you risk getting that crap on your hands
pesticide handlers? and wrists.
A) Oral (through your mouth)
B) Dermal (through your skin)
C) Inhalation (breathing it in)
D) Eye
Which of the formulation offers the Oil soluble formulations
greatest possibility of dermal (skin) Remember how oil SOAKS into a concrete driveway and stains it ... it's EASILY
absorption? absorbed.
A) Oil soluble formulations (these smell
like gas and look like motor oil)
B) Water-soluble liquids (like the Wisdom
TC you spray)
C) Granulars (like the bifen dry chemical
you apply on lawns)
D) Powder formulations (like a pesticide
dust that we use for roaches)
The most important step when a pesticide C) Prevent people from contacting the spilled pesticide
spill occurs is to: This is your FIRST job...stop others from getting harmed. THEN throw kitty litter on
A) Thoroughly soak the area to dilute the it to stop that spill from moving).
spilled pesticide
B) Direct the spilled pesticide away from
the area
C) Prevent people from contacting the
spilled pesticide
D) Salvage as much as possible of the
spilled pesticide
The surfaces of objects that are B) Inert Ingredients
commonly present in interiorscapes Remember, there are MANY chemicals in Bifen I/T besides Bifenthrin that make it
during a pesticide application that might work...ONE of those chemical CAN accidently stain wood or ruin marble flooring).
become ETCHED (like putting toilet bowl THINK BEFORE YOU SPRAY.
cleaner on a Rolex watch) can be caused
by the
A) Spray pressure being too high
B) Inert ingredients
C) Temperature of the spray
D) Size of the spray droplets
THE EYES = OCULAR
When referring to an ocular pesticide
Look...doctors pay a lot of money for their education and it makes them feel SO
exposure on a pesticide handler, which
MUCH BETTER to say "Ocular Tissue Damage" than to just say "his eyeball got
body part is affected?
scratched").
Because they will ABSORB liquid pesticide.
Why can't leather and cloth gloves be
Yes, we use both kinds of gloves for DRY pesticides...but if the test doesn't say
used for handling liquid pesticides?
"DRY" then ASSUME it means "WET"
, At the end of each WORK PERIOD
How often must Personal Protective Remember, it's not EACH DAY for a part time employee because they don't work
Equipment be cleaned? EACH DAY. We say "Work Period" just so everyone understands that at the end of
a work day, you HAVE to clean your PPE.
An important reason to inspect the area Identify any hazardous material or (I would say) hazardous situations (a dogs
where you will be completing a pesticide presence in a yard is going to be an issue for you)
application is to:
The information necessary for treating Precautionary statement section of the pesticide label
someone exposed to a pesticide is found This IS a test question.
in the:
Class 1 disposal site (landfill)
1. A Class 1 landfill accepts hazardous (pesticide) and non-hazardous (old sofas)
When cleaning up a spilled pesticide the
wastes;
absorbent material and all other
2. A Class 2 landfill accepts "designated" and non-hazardous waste (maybe it will
contaminated materials must be put into
ONLY take hazardous motor oil BUT nothing else hazardous)
sealed containers and transported to a:
3. A Class 3 landfill may accept non-hazardous municipal waste (NOTHING TOXIC
CAN BE DUMPED HERE)
The County Agricultural Commissioner's office
Pesticide spills should be reported to We are talking about having a backpack sprayers worth of chemical go into the
who? storm drain and NOT a cup of pesticide splashing out because you overflowed
your backpack sprayer)
Applying a pesticide that you know is not Intentional misapplication
registered for the site you are treating is (you're doing it and you KNOW it's wrong)
an example of? (Spraying Taurus SC
inside for ants when it is ONLY allowed to
be sprayed outside).
When using poison baits for controlling In tamper resistant bait stations
vertebrate pests, how should you place Remember, rats are VERTEBRATE pests and you only PLACE rat bait in bait
them? stations.
How much active ingredient would there 5lbs
be in a 20 pound bag of 25W This IS a test-like question. If the formulation is 33w it means 33% of the bag is
formulation? (Questions similar to this ACTIVE ingredient. If it says 50w, that means 50% of that bag is ACTIVE chemical.
WILL be on the exam so try to understand So if you have a 20lb bag of pesticide that is 25w formulation, you have to figure
the reasoning of the correct answer) out what is 25% of 20lbs (it's 5).
Which type of application equipment A rope wick
would produce the LEAST amount of Remember that a rope wick is a literal piece rope
pesticide drift? wet with pesticide that you can slap on the bark
A) A rope wick of trees (for example) as you walk through a
b) A backpack sprayer with one nozzle forest killing off trees you don't want.
c) A boom sprayer with 14 nozzles
d) A high pressure hand spray gun
Hymenoptera
Honey bees belong to the insect order of
Yes this is ACTUALLY a test question that is WORTHLESS to 99% of pest control
what?
applicators but you MUST know it.
Cultural Control
Cultural control techniques may include crop
When a farmer disks weeds in his field,
rotation, tillage, timing of planting and
that is an example of what kind of
harvesting, cover crops, choice of plant cultivar,
control?
competition, fertilizer or irrigation practices,
sanitation, and soil solarization
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an Control the pests without disrupting the ecological balance
important pest control strategy because it Look, why NUKE the environment when you can have a client just clean up the
strives to trash on their property to stop rats from going wild?
Which part of the label gives you an The part of the label that has the signal word
indication of the toxicity of the pesticide?
