AmericanHort hosts WPS update webinar

AmericanHort is hosting a free webinar titled "EPA's Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Update — How It Will Impact Your Business." The webinar takes place Oct. 28 from 11 a.m. Eastern to noon.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Sept. 28 that it has, “increased protections for the nation’s two million agricultural workers and their families. Each year, thousands of potentially preventable pesticide exposure incidents are reported that lead to sick days, lost wages and medical bills but with changes to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard the risk of injury or illness resulting from contact with pesticides on farms and in forests, nurseries and greenhouses can be reduced.”

These increased protections will translate into changes in the pesticide safety training as well as specific protections and notifications that you must provide your workers.

In this free webinar, Dr. Mary Ann Rose, Director of the Pesticide Safety Education Program, The Ohio State University – Extension will alert you to changes introduced in the WPS update and how you can stay in compliance with its mandates. She will also alert you to proposed changes for certifying pesticide applicators under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act.

Click here to register.