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Version: 2011
2011
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Session 12:
12: Handling
Handling chemicals
chemicals
Session

safely
safely

Corresponding principle:

Principle 6.
Occupational health
and safety

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Transporting chemicals

Reduce risk of spills

Corresponding
criterion:

6.12

Applying chemicals

Corresponding
criterion:

6.13.
What is wrong with this way of applying chemicals?
(critical)

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Protective clothing

 Having part of your body
exposed

Corresponding
criterion:

6.13.
(critical)

Corresponding
criterion:

Protective clothing
 Equipment that is not meant to be for
chemicals

Cotton gloves
Dust
masks
Dust
masks

6.13.
(critical)

Protective clothing
 Equipment in bad condition

Corresponding
criterion:

6.13.
(critical)

Chemical
residue

accumulated
due to lack of
cleaning

Corresponding
criterion:

How to protect yourself from chemicals

6.13.
(critical)

1. Cover all parts of your body
2. Equipment meant to be for chemicals
(mask with chemical filter etc.)
3. Equipment in good condition (not broken,
not dirty)

Corresponding
criterion:

How to protect yourself from chemicals

6.13.
What a smallholder can do as a first step (critical)

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During application

What is wrong with this situation?

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Corresponding
criteria:

6.14, 6.15

During application

Corresponding
criteria:

6.14, 6.15

Make sure that:
 All sprayers are wearing protective clothing.
 No sprayer is feeling sick.
 No sprayer has been spraying more than 6
hours.
 There is nobody around without protective
clothing (children, women, other workers,
supervisor, etc.)

After application

Corresponding
criterion:

Put up warning signs to prohibit entry

List of sites where
chemicals were
recently applied

6.15

After application

Corresponding
criteria:

6.16 , 6.17
 Going home without taking shower and changing

clothes
 Bringing protective clothing at home for your
wife to wash
 Washing application equipment at home

After application

Corresponding
criteria:

6.16 , 6.17

Before going home:
1.

Take shower and change clothes

2.

Wash protective clothing and equipment

Summary
Make sure that you do not contaminate yourself
and others:

During
the transportation
of chemicals

During application of
chemicals

After application of
chemicals
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by
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practices
and
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behavior.
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