With respiratory protection; as Yoda said, there is another.  In most cases, the regulatory approach on pesticide labels dealing with respiratory protection when handling pesticides has been either unmoored from any recognized standard (�Wear a full face respirator when using this material�); insufficiently detailed and/or obsolete (�Wear a respirator approved for pesticides.�); or simply dumped into the OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.134. The major problem with using the OSHA Standard is that it was designed for ��general industry, construction, shipyard, longshoring, and marine terminal workplaces (Fed. Reg. V63 No5, pg 1152) and specifically exempted agricultural operations governed under FIFRA (ibid, pg 1157). The California Department of Pesticide Regulation reviewed 1910.134 and developed respiratory protection regulations specific to the pesticide-handling industries (primarily agricultural and structural treatment) that take into account the nature of the use environments, the diversity of the potential users and the variability and unknowns of the pesticides themselves.

Respiratory protection regulation for pesticide handlers: The California model

248th National Meeting (2014)

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