QAL Laws & Regs Exam Prep (California) questions with accurate
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detailed answers ||
The difference between CA laws and DPR regulations is that laws are
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Passed by the CA legislature and regulations are adopted by DPR to carry out laws
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Remember is the Department of Pesticide Regulation || || || || || ||
Remember the Legislature makes the Laws (the law: "employers must protect employees from || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
harm on the job") || || ||
but the DPR makes specific Regulations (the regulation: "eyewear must be worn, waterproof
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
gloves, long sleeve shirts, socks, etc." to protect that employee from harm)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
A cooperating agency that helps DPR enforce pesticide use laws and regulations in CA is the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
County Agricultural Commissioner || ||
(think of him as the local pesticide "sheriff")
|| || || || || || ||
When pesticide registrant (the MAKER of that pesticide) allows a pesticide product registration
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(it's license to sell it in the state of California) to lapse/end, pest control dealers (like Univar) can
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
continue to sell out their stock of that pesticide (stuff that they ALREADY bought in order to sell
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to pest control companies) for how many years?
|| || || || || || ||
2 years
||
So if a Company decides they're not making a profit off of a pesticide that has been
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
licensed/registered in CA and they let their license "lapse/expire", CA lets stores sell out of any || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
product they bought for the next 2 years. || || || || || || ||
Employee handler pesticide safety training topics (what the boss needs to teach to his techs) do
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
not include how to:
|| || ||
A) confine spray to target area
|| || || || ||
B) handle, open and lift containers
|| || || || ||
C)recognize the chemical characteristics of the pesticide || || || || || ||
D) recognize pesticide poisoning symptoms
|| || || ||
C) Recognize the chemical characteristics of the pesticide
|| || || || || || || ||
(you don't NEED to know EXACTLY the chemical makeup of every pesticide just like you don't
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
NEED to know every ingredient in Ketchup to understand that it is a condiment for hotdogs)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
,Why is it important for pesticide applications that employees receive training on recognizing and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
avoiding heat stress? || ||
Because MANY heat stress symptoms are identical to pesticide poisoning symptoms.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
The potential for pesticides leaching (soaking ) through the soil into the ground water increases
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
with what? ||
RAINFALL ||
Rain washes pesticide deeper into the soil...we don't want it continuing down hundreds of feet
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
into our drinking water beneath us)
|| || || || ||
Arrange these label words from least dangerous to most dangerous: Warning/Danger/Caution
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Caution, Warning, Danger || ||
Which signal world has the word poison and a skull and crossbones on the label?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
DANGER
What are the three signal words commonly used on all pesticides?
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Danger, Warning, Caution || ||
The hazard (DANGER) of a pesticide is a relative measure of its potential to:
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
A)Harm people or the environment || || || ||
B) control the pest
|| || ||
C) damage application equipment
|| || ||
D) bind to soil particles
|| || || ||
A) Harm people or the environment
|| || || || || ||
(We say something is REALLY DANGEROUS when it can REALLY harm
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
people/environment...like NUCLEAR waste...but we tell someone to be "cautious" not to get soap || || || || || || || || || || || ||
in their eyes when bathing)
|| || || || ||
Which of the following is the MOST frequent route of pesticide exposure for pesticide handlers?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
A) Oral (through your mouth)
|| || || ||
B) Dermal (through your skin)
|| || || ||
C) Inhalation (breathing it in)
|| || || ||
D) Eye ||
Dermal
Every time you fill up a backpack sprayer, you risk getting that crap on your hands and wrists.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Which of the formulation offers the greatest possibility of dermal (skin) absorption?
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
A) Oil soluble formulations (these smell like gas and look like motor oil)
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
,B) Water-soluble liquids (like the Wisdom TC you spray)
|| || || || || || || ||
C) Granulars (like the bifen dry chemical you apply on lawns)
|| || || || || || || || || ||
D) Powder formulations (like a pesticide dust that we use for roaches)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Oil soluble formulations
|| ||
Remember how oil SOAKS into a concrete driveway and stains it....it's EASILY absorbed. || || || || || || || || || || || ||
The most important step when a pesticide spill occurs is to:
|| || || || || || || || || ||
A) Thoroughly soak the area to dilute the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || || || ||
B) Direct the spilled pesticide away from the area
|| || || || || || || ||
C) Prevent people from contacting the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || ||
D) Salvage as much as possible of the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || || || ||
C) Prevent people from contacting the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || ||
This is your FIRST job...stop others from getting harmed....THEN throw kitty litter on it to stop
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
that spill from moving). || || ||
The surfaces of objects that are commonly present in interiorscapes during a pesticide application
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
that might become ETCHED (like putting toilet bowl cleaner on a Rolex watch) can be caused by
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the
A) Spray pressure being too high
|| || || || ||
B) Inert ingredients
|| ||
C) Temperature of the spray
|| || || ||
D) Size of the spray droplets
|| || || || ||
B) Inert Ingredients
|| ||
Remember, there are MANY chemicals in Bifen I/T besides Bifenthrin that make it work...ONE || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
of those chemical CAN accidently stain wood or ruin marble flooring). THINK BEFORE YOU
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
SPRAY.
When referring to an ocular pesticide exposure on a pesticide handler, which body part is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
affected?
THE EYES = OCULAR || || ||
Look...doctors pay a lot of money for their education and it makes them feel SO MUCH BETTER || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to say "Ocular Tissue Damage" than to just say "his eyeball got scratched").
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Why can't leather and cloth gloves be used for handling liquid pesticides?
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Because they will ABSORB liquid pesticide. || || || || || ||
Yes, we use both kinds of gloves for DRY pesticides...but if the test doesn't say "DRY" then
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
ASSUME it means "WET" || || ||
, How often must Personal Protective Equipment be cleaned?
|| || || || || || ||
At the end of each WORK PERIOD
|| || || || || ||
Remember, it's not EACH DAY for a part time employee because they don't work EACH DAY. || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
We say "Work Period" just so everyone understands that at the end of a work day, you HAVE to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
clean your PPE. || ||
An important reason to inspect the area where you will be completing a pesticide application is to:
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Identify any hazardous material or (I would say) hazardous situations (a dogs presence in a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
yard is going to be an issue for you)
|| || || || || || || ||
The information necessary for treating someone exposed to a pesticide is found in the:
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Precautionary statement section of the pesticide label || || || || || ||
This IS a test question. || || || ||
When cleaning up a spilled pesticide the absorbent material and all other contaminated materials
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
must be put into sealed containers and transported to a:
|| || || || || || || || ||
Class 1 disposal site (landfill) || || || ||
1. A Class 1 landfill accepts hazardous (pesticide) and non-hazardous (old sofas) wastes;
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
2. A Class 2 landfill accepts "designated" and non-hazardous waste (maybe it will ONLY take
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
hazardous motor oil BUT nothing else hazardous) || || || || || ||
3. A Class 3 landfill may accept non-hazardous municipal waste (NOTHING TOXIC CAN BE
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
DUMPED HERE) ||
Pesticide spills should be reported to who? || || || || || ||
The County Agricultural Commissioner's office
|| || || ||
We are talking about having a backpack sprayers worth of chemical go into the storm drain and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
NOT a cup of pesticide splashing out because you overflowed your backpack sprayer)
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Applying a pesticide that you know is not registered for the site you are treating is an example of?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(Spraying Taurus SC inside for ants when it is ONLY allowed to be sprayed outside). || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Intentional misapplication ||
(you're doing it and you KNOW it's wrong) || || || || || || ||
When using poison baits for controlling vertebrate pests, how should you place them?
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
In tamper resistant bait stations
|| || || ||
Remember, rats are VERTEBRATE pests and you only PLACE rat bait in bait stations. || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|| || || || || || || || || ||
detailed answers ||
The difference between CA laws and DPR regulations is that laws are
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Passed by the CA legislature and regulations are adopted by DPR to carry out laws
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Remember is the Department of Pesticide Regulation || || || || || ||
Remember the Legislature makes the Laws (the law: "employers must protect employees from || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
harm on the job") || || ||
but the DPR makes specific Regulations (the regulation: "eyewear must be worn, waterproof
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
gloves, long sleeve shirts, socks, etc." to protect that employee from harm)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
A cooperating agency that helps DPR enforce pesticide use laws and regulations in CA is the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
County Agricultural Commissioner || ||
(think of him as the local pesticide "sheriff")
|| || || || || || ||
When pesticide registrant (the MAKER of that pesticide) allows a pesticide product registration
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(it's license to sell it in the state of California) to lapse/end, pest control dealers (like Univar) can
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
continue to sell out their stock of that pesticide (stuff that they ALREADY bought in order to sell
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to pest control companies) for how many years?
|| || || || || || ||
2 years
||
So if a Company decides they're not making a profit off of a pesticide that has been
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
licensed/registered in CA and they let their license "lapse/expire", CA lets stores sell out of any || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
product they bought for the next 2 years. || || || || || || ||
Employee handler pesticide safety training topics (what the boss needs to teach to his techs) do
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
not include how to:
|| || ||
A) confine spray to target area
|| || || || ||
B) handle, open and lift containers
|| || || || ||
C)recognize the chemical characteristics of the pesticide || || || || || ||
D) recognize pesticide poisoning symptoms
|| || || ||
C) Recognize the chemical characteristics of the pesticide
|| || || || || || || ||
(you don't NEED to know EXACTLY the chemical makeup of every pesticide just like you don't
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
NEED to know every ingredient in Ketchup to understand that it is a condiment for hotdogs)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
,Why is it important for pesticide applications that employees receive training on recognizing and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
avoiding heat stress? || ||
Because MANY heat stress symptoms are identical to pesticide poisoning symptoms.
|| || || || || || || || || ||
The potential for pesticides leaching (soaking ) through the soil into the ground water increases
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
with what? ||
RAINFALL ||
Rain washes pesticide deeper into the soil...we don't want it continuing down hundreds of feet
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
into our drinking water beneath us)
|| || || || ||
Arrange these label words from least dangerous to most dangerous: Warning/Danger/Caution
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Caution, Warning, Danger || ||
Which signal world has the word poison and a skull and crossbones on the label?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
DANGER
What are the three signal words commonly used on all pesticides?
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Danger, Warning, Caution || ||
The hazard (DANGER) of a pesticide is a relative measure of its potential to:
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
A)Harm people or the environment || || || ||
B) control the pest
|| || ||
C) damage application equipment
|| || ||
D) bind to soil particles
|| || || ||
A) Harm people or the environment
|| || || || || ||
(We say something is REALLY DANGEROUS when it can REALLY harm
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
people/environment...like NUCLEAR waste...but we tell someone to be "cautious" not to get soap || || || || || || || || || || || ||
in their eyes when bathing)
|| || || || ||
Which of the following is the MOST frequent route of pesticide exposure for pesticide handlers?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
A) Oral (through your mouth)
|| || || ||
B) Dermal (through your skin)
|| || || ||
C) Inhalation (breathing it in)
|| || || ||
D) Eye ||
Dermal
Every time you fill up a backpack sprayer, you risk getting that crap on your hands and wrists.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Which of the formulation offers the greatest possibility of dermal (skin) absorption?
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
A) Oil soluble formulations (these smell like gas and look like motor oil)
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
,B) Water-soluble liquids (like the Wisdom TC you spray)
|| || || || || || || ||
C) Granulars (like the bifen dry chemical you apply on lawns)
|| || || || || || || || || ||
D) Powder formulations (like a pesticide dust that we use for roaches)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Oil soluble formulations
|| ||
Remember how oil SOAKS into a concrete driveway and stains it....it's EASILY absorbed. || || || || || || || || || || || ||
The most important step when a pesticide spill occurs is to:
|| || || || || || || || || ||
A) Thoroughly soak the area to dilute the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || || || ||
B) Direct the spilled pesticide away from the area
|| || || || || || || ||
C) Prevent people from contacting the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || ||
D) Salvage as much as possible of the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || || || ||
C) Prevent people from contacting the spilled pesticide
|| || || || || || ||
This is your FIRST job...stop others from getting harmed....THEN throw kitty litter on it to stop
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
that spill from moving). || || ||
The surfaces of objects that are commonly present in interiorscapes during a pesticide application
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
that might become ETCHED (like putting toilet bowl cleaner on a Rolex watch) can be caused by
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the
A) Spray pressure being too high
|| || || || ||
B) Inert ingredients
|| ||
C) Temperature of the spray
|| || || ||
D) Size of the spray droplets
|| || || || ||
B) Inert Ingredients
|| ||
Remember, there are MANY chemicals in Bifen I/T besides Bifenthrin that make it work...ONE || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
of those chemical CAN accidently stain wood or ruin marble flooring). THINK BEFORE YOU
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
SPRAY.
When referring to an ocular pesticide exposure on a pesticide handler, which body part is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
affected?
THE EYES = OCULAR || || ||
Look...doctors pay a lot of money for their education and it makes them feel SO MUCH BETTER || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to say "Ocular Tissue Damage" than to just say "his eyeball got scratched").
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Why can't leather and cloth gloves be used for handling liquid pesticides?
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Because they will ABSORB liquid pesticide. || || || || || ||
Yes, we use both kinds of gloves for DRY pesticides...but if the test doesn't say "DRY" then
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
ASSUME it means "WET" || || ||
, How often must Personal Protective Equipment be cleaned?
|| || || || || || ||
At the end of each WORK PERIOD
|| || || || || ||
Remember, it's not EACH DAY for a part time employee because they don't work EACH DAY. || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
We say "Work Period" just so everyone understands that at the end of a work day, you HAVE to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
clean your PPE. || ||
An important reason to inspect the area where you will be completing a pesticide application is to:
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Identify any hazardous material or (I would say) hazardous situations (a dogs presence in a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
yard is going to be an issue for you)
|| || || || || || || ||
The information necessary for treating someone exposed to a pesticide is found in the:
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Precautionary statement section of the pesticide label || || || || || ||
This IS a test question. || || || ||
When cleaning up a spilled pesticide the absorbent material and all other contaminated materials
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
must be put into sealed containers and transported to a:
|| || || || || || || || ||
Class 1 disposal site (landfill) || || || ||
1. A Class 1 landfill accepts hazardous (pesticide) and non-hazardous (old sofas) wastes;
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
2. A Class 2 landfill accepts "designated" and non-hazardous waste (maybe it will ONLY take
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
hazardous motor oil BUT nothing else hazardous) || || || || || ||
3. A Class 3 landfill may accept non-hazardous municipal waste (NOTHING TOXIC CAN BE
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
DUMPED HERE) ||
Pesticide spills should be reported to who? || || || || || ||
The County Agricultural Commissioner's office
|| || || ||
We are talking about having a backpack sprayers worth of chemical go into the storm drain and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
NOT a cup of pesticide splashing out because you overflowed your backpack sprayer)
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Applying a pesticide that you know is not registered for the site you are treating is an example of?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(Spraying Taurus SC inside for ants when it is ONLY allowed to be sprayed outside). || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Intentional misapplication ||
(you're doing it and you KNOW it's wrong) || || || || || || ||
When using poison baits for controlling vertebrate pests, how should you place them?
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
In tamper resistant bait stations
|| || || ||
Remember, rats are VERTEBRATE pests and you only PLACE rat bait in bait stations. || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
