[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 23]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR170.230]

[Page 261-262]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 170_WORKER PROTECTION STANDARD--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart C_Standard for Pesticide Handlers
 
Sec. 170.230  Pesticide safety training for handlers.

    (a) Requirement. Before any handler performs any handling task, the 
handler employer shall assure that the handler has been trained in 
accordance with this section during the last 5 years, counting from the 
end of the month in which the training was completed.
    (b) Exceptions. The following persons need not be trained under this 
section:
    (1) A handler who is currently certified as an applicator of 
restricted-use pesticides under part 171 of this chapter.
    (2) A handler who satisfies the training requirements of part 171 of 
this chapter.
    (3) A handler who is certified or licensed as a crop advisor by a 
program acknowledged as appropriate in writing by EPA or a State or 
Tribal lead agency for pesticide enforcement, provided that a 
requirement for such certification or licensing is pesticide safety 
training that includes all the information set out in Sec. 
170.230(c)(4).
    (c) Training programs. (1) General pesticide safety information 
shall be presented to handlers either orally from written materials or 
audiovisually. The information must be presented in a manner that the 
handlers can understand (such as through a translator).

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The presenter also shall respond to handlers' questions.
    (2) The person who conducts the training shall meet at least one of 
the following criteria:
    (i) Be currently certified as an applicator of restricted-use 
pesticides under part 171 of this chapter; or
    (ii) Be currently designated as a trainer of certified applicators 
or pesticide handlers by a State, Federal, or Tribal agency having 
jurisdiction; or
    (iii) Have completed a pesticide safety train-the-trainer program 
approved by a State, Federal, or Tribal agency having jurisdiction.
    (3) Any person who issues an EPA-approved Worker Protection Standard 
handler training certificate must assure that the handler who receives 
the training certificate has been trained in accordance with paragraph 
(c)(4) of this section.
    (4) The pesticide safety training materials must convey, at a 
minimum, the following information:
    (i) Format and meaning of information contained on pesticide labels 
and in labeling, including safety information such as precautionary 
statements about human health hazards.
    (ii) Hazards of pesticides resulting from toxicity and exposure, 
including acute and chronic effects, delayed effects, and sensitization.
    (iii) Routes by which pesticides can enter the body.
    (iv) Signs and symptoms of common types of pesticide poisoning.
    (v) Emergency first aid for pesticide injuries or poisonings.
    (vi) How to obtain emergency medical care.
    (vii) Routine and emergency decontamination procedures.
    (viii) Need for and appropriate use of personal protective 
equipment.
    (ix) Prevention, recognition, and first aid treatment of heat-
related illness.
    (x) Safety requirements for handling, transporting, storing, and 
disposing of pesticides, including general procedures for spill cleanup.
    (xi) Environmental concerns such as drift, runoff, and wildlife 
hazards.
    (xii) Warnings about taking pesticides or pesticide containers home.
    (xiii) Requirements of this subpart that must be followed by handler 
employers for the protection of handlers and other persons, including 
the prohibition against applying pesticides in a manner that will cause 
contact with workers or other persons, the requirement to use personal 
protective equipment, the provisions for training and decontamination, 
and the protection against retaliatory acts.
    (d) Verification of training. (1) Except as provided in paragraph 
(d)(2) of this section, if the handler employer assures that a handler 
possesses an EPA-approved Worker Protection Standard handler training 
certificate, then the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section will 
have been met.
    (2) If the handler employer is aware or has reason to know that an 
EPA-approved Worker Protection Standard handler training certificate has 
not been issued in accordance with this section, or has not been issued 
to the handler bearing the certificate, or the handler training was 
completed more than 5 years before the beginning of the current month, a 
handler's possession of that certificate does not meet the requirements 
of paragraph (a) of this section.

[57 FR 38151, Aug. 21, 1992, as amended at 60 FR 21953, May 3, 1995]