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International Union of Agricultural Workers: Pesticides Risk Reduction e-Programme
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"Pesticide skills" are those actions and procedures that reduce risks of pesticides.
Click graphic for risk assessment matrix Method to Measure Environmental Impact of Pesticides H&S functions ILO Estimates of Ill Health Effects of Pesticides - 70,000 deaths due to pesticides. |
Pesticides Learning Programme FOR UNION REPRESENTATIVES (Level 3) INFORMATION Pesticides poisonings. Recognise the Signs and Symtoms of pesticides poisoning Risk Assessment As pesticides are poisons, capable of killing insects, plants of other pests, they may pose a variety of risks to people. The risk is the potential of those hazards to be released and the possible severity of that release. Risk = Likelihood X Severity. All pesticides are tested extensively to determine what are the hazards of each pesticide, and the likelihod of risk caused by exposure. If there are risks, controls are established to minimise those risks. Risk Assessment. Increasingly people in supply chains are expected to carry out risk assessments to determine priorities for action. Any risk assessment of pesticides would try to determine where ill effects are most likely to occur. The most likely occurences would be of nervous disorders caused by OPs or carbamates. This leads to requiring helath surveillance monitoring of those at regular risk. Step 1 Classification and Labelling Hazards classification Colour code,Pictograms etc Step 2 Asorption and effects, Acute and chronic Routes of entry Step 3 Regulation and control pesticides Code of conduct Step 4 Protection measures, Health Surveilance, transportation,storage distribution Step 5 Disposal..
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