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February 27, 2015

Farmworkers get more safety training

  • Demand for classes is high due to changing expectations of produce buyers.
  • By ROSS COURTNEY
    Yakima Herald-Republic

    YAKIMA — Surrounded by brushes, respirators and yellow plastic coveralls, Flor Servin held up a white baby onesie and told a room full of farmworkers, in Spanish, they must scrub chemical residue from their protective equipment after work, for the health of their families as well as their own.

    The lesson from Servin, a state pesticide safety education specialist, was just one highlighted last month at the Yakima Convention Center, where instructors taught roughly 190 farm employees how to choose correct respirator cartridges, decontaminate gear and read pesticide labels.


     
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