Pesticide Safety Poster Criteria

Each WPS safety poster must convey to workers and handlers that there are federal rules to protect them, including a requirement for safety training, and how to help keep pesticides from getting on or into their bodies. To meet the WPS criteria, the poster must include the following instructions:

• Avoid getting on your skin or into your body any pesticides that may be on plants and soil, in irrigation water, or drifting from nearby applications.
• Wash before eating, drinking, chewing gum, using tobacco, or using the toilet.
• Wear work clothing that protects your body from pesticide residues, such as long-sleeved shirts, long pants, shoes, socks, and hats or scarves.
• Wash or shower with soap and water, shampoo your head, and put on clean clothes after work.
• Wash work clothes separately from other clothes before wearing them again.
• Wash immediately in the nearest clean water if pesticides are spilled or sprayed on your body; as soon as possible, shower, shampoo, and change into clean clothes.
• Follow directions about keeping out of treated or restricted areas.

To learn more about Pesticide Handler Safety visit our Pesticide Handler Safety Online Training web page.