Compliance with required pesticide‐specific protective equipment use

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Background: This study measured compliance with pesticide‐specific protective gear use requirements practiced by farmers applying pesticides to field crops.Materials and Methods: Two hundred and twenty randomly selected dairy farmers were interviewed 1 week after pesticide application to determine use of personal protective equipment while applying at least 1 of 15 possible restricted use pesticides (response rate = 82.4%).Results: Among the three most common pesticides used (dicamba, atrazine, and cyanazine), the proportions of farmers fully complying with gear use requirements were 8.8, 8.6, and 2.5%, respectively. For those same pesticides, the proportions (and 95% CI) using none of the required gear were 56.9% (47.3–66.5%), 38.6% (27.2–50.0%), and 47.5%(32.0–63.0%), respectively.Conclusions: Both full and partial compliance with required personal protective equipment was low for each of the 15 chemicals applied by the applicators in this sample. Am. J. Ind. Med. 41:70–73, 2002.

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