Exams / Illinois Pesticide General Standards / 40 CFR §170.505
40 CFR §170.505 — what it says, and how the exam tests it
This section is cited by 4 of our practice questions and is tested on 4 exams including the Illinois Pesticide General Standards.
The text
§ 170.505 Requirements during applications to protect handlers, workers, and other persons. (a) Prohibition from contacting workers and other persons with pesticides during application. The handler employer and the handler must ensure that no pesticide is applied so as to contact, directly or through drift, any worker or other person, other than an appropriately trained and equipped handler involved in the application. (b) Suspending applications. (1) Any handler performing a pesticide application must immediately suspend the pesticide application if any worker or other person is in an application exclusion zone described in § 170.405(a)(1) or the area specified in column B of table 1 to paragraph (b) of § 170.405, except for: (i) Appropriately trained and equipped handlers involved in the application, and (ii) The owner(s) of the agricultural establishment and members of their immediate families who remain inside closed buildings, housing, or shelters, provided that the handlers have been expressly instructed by the owner(s) of the agricultural establishment that only immediate family members remain inside those closed buildings, housing, or shelters and that the application should proceed despite the presence of the owner(s) or their immediate family members inside those closed buildings, housing, or shelters. (2) A handler must not resume a suspended pesticide application while any workers or other persons remain in an application exclusion zone described in § 170.405(a)(1) or the area specified in column B of table 1 to paragraph (b) of § 170.405, except for: (i) Appropriately trained and equipped handlers involved in the application, and (ii) The owner(s) of the agricultural establishment and members of their immediate families who remain inside closed buildings, housing, or shelters, provided that the handlers have been expressly instructed by the owner(s) of the agricultural establishment that only immediate family members remain inside those closed buildings, housing, or shelters and that the application should proceed despite the presence of the owner(s) or their immediate family members inside those closed buildings, housing, or shelters. (c) Handlers using highly toxic pesticides. The handler employer must ensure that any handler who is performing any handler activity with a pesticide product that has the skull-and-crossbones symbol on the front…
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How it comes up on the exam
Practice questions written from this section — answers and explanations are in the drill.
- An applicator is performing a pesticide application and notices an unauthorized person has entered the application exclusion zone. According to 40 CFR §170.505, what must the handler do?
drill Safe Handling, PPE, and Worker Protection → - According to 40 CFR §170.505, which type of contact must a handler performing a fumigant application in enclosed space production maintain with a person stationed outside?
drill Safe Handling, PPE, and Worker Protection → - An applicator applies a fumigant inside a greenhouse. What level of contact must the handler inside the greenhouse maintain with another handler stationed outside?
drill Safe Handling, PPE, and Worker Protection →