Success StoryPesticide Training for Minorities
Pesticide Training for Minorities
Author: Jessica Barnes
Planning Unit: Harrison County CES
Major Program: Chemical Management
Plan of Work: Protecting the Environment
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
In Harrison County we have several H2-A workers that help many of our farmers in various types of operations. I was contacted by two of those producers on having their workers trained in Pesticide Safety and Handling. I reached out to Ric Bessin to see how to go about doing this and was able to train three H2-A workers and get them their private applicator license as well as their Paraquat training certificate. It was wonderful to be able to work with this group of guys and we are working on being able to train more H2-A workers in the future to hopefully improve pesticide handling and safety even more.
Dr. Bessin is working with the EPA to be able to have a new category of applicators and hopefully this will allow us to train more H2-A workers who may not be able to read a label in English.
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