New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 30 - PESTICIDE CONTROL CODE
Subchapter 12 - AGRICULTURAL WORKER PROTECTION
Section 7:30-12.13 - Restrictions during applications

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:30-12.13

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) The handler employer and the handler shall ensure that no pesticide is applied so as to contact, either directly or through drift, any worker or other person, other than an appropriately trained and equipped handler involved in the application.

(b) The handler employer shall assure that any handler who is performing any handling activity with a product that has the skull and crossbones symbol on the front panel of the label is monitored visually or by voice communication at least every two hours.

(c) The handler employer shall ensure:

1. That any handler in an area of enclosed space production during a fumigant application maintains continuous visual or voice contact with another handler stationed immediately outside of the area of enclosed space production; and

2. That the handler stationed outside the area of enclosed space production has immediate access to and uses the PPE required by the fumigant labeling for applicators in the event that entry becomes necessary for rescue.

(d) A handler performing a pesticide application shall immediately suspend the application if any worker or other person, other than an appropriately trained and equipped handler involved in the application, is in the application exclusion zone set forth at N.J.A.C. 7:30-12.3(a) or the area specified in the Table at N.J.A.C. 7:30-12.3(b)4.

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