Oregon Pesticide Laws and Safety Exam Questions and Answers Latest 2024/2025 (100% SOLVED)

Pesticides - Answer- include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, and many other substances used to kill, harm, or repel pests. General Use Pesticides - Answer- may be bought over the counter without a pesticide license. Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs) - Answer- are a category of products that pose a higher risk to people, animals, or the environment. They can only be purchased by a person with a pesticide license; use requires supervision by a licensed applicator. Pesticide CERTIFICATION - Answer- the process of demonstrating a person knows how to handle and apply pesticides in a safe and responsible manner. valid for up to five (5) years Pesticide LICENSING - Answer- the process to obtain the actual license that shows that a person has met certification requirements to make specific pesticide applications under that license. PRIVATE PESTICIDE APPLICATOR LICENSE - Answer- needed to purchase, apply, or supervise the use of restricted-use pesticides (RUPs) on land in agricultural production that a person, or their employer owns, leases, or rents. This includes farmland, rangeland, forests, greenhouses, nurseries, orchards, etc. IMMEDIATELY SUPERVISED Pesticide TRAINEE LICENSE - Answer- for individuals who work under the supervision of a Commercial or Public Pesticide Applicator. • Must be on-site at all times with the trainee when making pesticide applications, and • Be able to reach the trainee's location within five minutes. • No required exam Trainees may only make applications within their supervisor's categories. • The supervising applicator is responsible for training the Immediately Supervised Trainee PESTICIDE APPRENTICE LICENSE - Answer- individuals who work under the supervision of a Commercial or Public Pesticide Applicator. • The supervising applicator does not need to be onsite when the apprentice is making pesticide applications, BUT the apprentice must be able to reach the supervising applicator at all times. • The Pesticide Apprentice is not a certified applicator. In order to renew this license, beyond the first year, the apprentice will need to attend eight (8) hours of approved continuing education classes. The eight hours must consist of at least four (4) hours of Oregon Pesticide Laws and Safety Exam Questions and Answers Latest 2024/2025 (100% SOLVED) CORE credits. If the apprentice does not accrue the required credit hours, they will need to retake the Laws & Safety exam to re-license. • Required exam: Laws & Safety Apprentices may only make applications within their supervisor's categories. The supervising applicator is responsible for training the apprentice. PUBLIC PESTICIDE APPLICATOR LICENSE - Answer- required of employees of federal and state agencies, counties, cities, municipalities, irrigation districts, drainage districts, soil and water conservation districts or other special districts, public utilities, and telecommunication utilities who in the course of their work: • Use or supervise the use of restricted-use pesticides, (RUPs) and/or; • Use machine-powered equipment to apply any pesticides (general or restricted) • Apply pesticides (including organic and 25b products) on the property of any Oregon pre-kindergarten, public and private K-12 schools, community colleges, federal Head Start programs, Oregon School for the Deaf, Oregon Youth Authority residential academy, or education service districts • Required exam: Laws & Safety and at least one category exam. COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR LICENSE - Answer- Apply or supervise the application of ANY pesticide (general use, restricted use, organic, and 25b products) on the land or property of others while employed by a Commercial Pesticide Operator IPM - Answer- IPM is a common-sense strategy that integrates multiple tactics to reduce pest populations to an acceptable level. Strategies include sanitation, pest exclusion, cultural, biological, mechanical, chemical control. IPM weighs the risks and benefits of pest reduction methods to determine the most environmentally and economically sound manner to manage pests Worker Protection Standard WPS - Answer- protection of employees on farms, and in forests, nurseries, and greenhouses from occupational exposure to agricultural pesticides WPS Agricultural Workers - Answer- performing tasks related to the cultivation and harvesting of plants, including pruning, sucker removal, watering, and potting WPS Pesticide Handlers - Answer- assigned to mix, load, or apply agricultural pesticides; enter greenhouses to operate ventilation equipment after applications; handle equipment with residues; adjust or remove soil fumigant coverings, etc. Pesticide drift - Answer- the unintentional diffusion of pesticides and the potential negative effects of pesticide application—including: off-target contamination due to spray drift as well as runoff from plants/soil. Particle Drift - Answer- small liquid/dust droplets or particles are easiest to move away from targeted area. USE largest droplet size that gives best pest control as label allows. Vapor Drift - Answer- vapor containing the pesticide active ingredient moves off the application site. usually through evaporation How to avoid drift? - Answer- check weather conditions, equipment; larger droplet size (pressure- higher the smaller droplet size), chemical formulation (less volatile- amine instead of esters) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - Answer- allows EPA to monitor/ regulate all pesticides usage/distribution. Registration, approval/use from label, determines general use or Restricted use, enforce law Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) - Answer- EPA set pesticide tolerances for all pesticides used in or on food or in a manner that will result in a residue in or on food or animal feed. FDA enforces it. A tolerance is the maximum permissible level for pesticide residues allowed in or on human food and animal feed. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - Answer- protects people in the workplace. requires employer to keep safety/injury/death records and report them. employee has the right to know about pesticide use/ REI/health issues Endangered Species Act (ESA) - Answer- requires federal agencies to ensure that any action they authorize, fund, or carry out, will not likely jeopardize the continued existence of any listed species, or destroy or adversely modify any critical habitat for those species. Restricted entry interval REI - Answer- All WPS qualified pesticides have labels which indicate when it is safe to enter the area after its application. Workers may not enter the area without special preperation Hazard communication standard HCS - Answer- requires employers to train their employees to recognize chemical hazards - using the information provided on product labels and in safety data sheets - and to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves. Section 3 - Answer- ORS 634Oregon Revised statutes- State Pesticide Control: must be registered with ODA after EPA registers them Section 24(c) - Answer- Special local needs. If a pest causes serious damage to a crop and there is no pesticide already registered to control it. FIFRA allows states to give out. must have the supplemental label when applying Personal protective equipment (PPE) - Answer- special clothing or equipment that protcts from pesticide exposure. coveralls, protective suits, gloves aprons, respirators eye ware etc must . Exposure - Answer- how much chemical contacted the body surface Dose - Answer- the amount of chemical absorbed into the body (through skin, eye, gut, lung) toxicity - Answer- how a substance adversely affects a living system dose-time relationship acute exposure - Answer- one time or limited exposure to a pesticide chronic exposure - Answer- contact to a pesticide over a period of time acute toxicity - Answer- effects that appear within minutes/days after exposure. how poisonous a substance is after an acute exposure- Basis for the warning statements on a label. Risk? - Answer- = Toxicity + Exposure. how poisonous, the amount and route of exposure Routes of entry - Answer- Dermal, inhalation, oral and ocular factors that affect toxicity (3) - Answer- route of entry, frequency and duration of exposure, does Lethal dose fifty (LD50) - Answer- the does of pesticide that kills half of animals (50%) in a does response study. Catagory highly toxic - Answer- Signal word DANGER POISON! very small oral/skin dose can kill a person (drops-teaspoon) Catagory Moderately toxic - Answer- Signal word Warning! small oral dose can kill a person (over teaspoon-1 ounce) Catagory slightly toxic - Answer- Signal word Caution! (over 1 ounce-1 pint/lb) oral dose that can kill a person relatively nontoxic - Answer- Signal word Caution! (over 1 pint/lb) oral dose that can kill a person Chronic effects - Answer- usually irreversible last for the rest or your life. reproductive damage, teratogenic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, endocrine disruption acute effects - Answer- reversible sometimes delayed. skin rash, nausea, eye irritation, dizziness and harm to the liver non-point source - Answer- pesticides that move down with rain or irrigation water and reach the water table point source polution - Answer- pesticides that enter a well from a spill or back siphoning and get into groundwater directly. Transfer processes - Answer- factors that affect pesticide movement from soil to groundwater. adsorption, runoff, leaching and volatilization. how to protect groundwater - Answer- read/follow label, Use IPM, know soil type, understand chemical type, know location-avoid near water source, avoid spill pesticide formulations - Answer- granule, dust, wettable powder- flowable, water solution, oil solution how to protect bee's from pesticide - Answer- right pesticide/right application, DON't spray or allow pesticide to drift onto crops in bloom. spray when bees are not active, don't treat near hives. why use IPM? - Answer- Balanced ecosystem, pesticides might not work, saves money basic steps of IPM? - Answer- prevent pest buildup, monitor pests, assess, decide best action when to control pests based on IPM? - Answer- control after pest density has passed economic threshold, before economic injury level economic threshold - Answer- pest numbers reach a level above which there is a risk to that the grower could lose money