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The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance on how to use fluorescent tracers in pesticide safety training. The manual, available in Spanish and English, is for pesticide safety educators, including agricultural extension agents, integrated pest management trainers, farm supervisors and safety managers – anyone interested in teaching about safe farming practices.
What is in the manual?
- A complete educational package
- Key messages
- Step-by-step instructions
- Supply lists
- Tips on using fluorescent tracers
How Can Fluorescent Tracer be Used?
- Quick Demos
Light up your discussions with short, easy, classroom demonstrations. - Hands-on Activities
Participants "learn by doing" with scripted role-playing and hands-on practice of decontamination procedures. - Workplace Pesticide Application
Seeing is believing with tracer in the tank during an application assess how pesticide safety procedures and equipment are protecting pesticide handlers.
How does the fluorescent tracer technique work?
- FT mimics pesticide contamination on clothes, skin, and on surfaces.
- FT is invisible under normal light.
- FT glows brightly under black lights.
Why is the fluorescent tracer technique a good teaching tool?
- The FT technique provides immediate feedback.
- FT technique promotes discussion.
- FT technique transcends language and literacy barriers.
This manual brings a research method, the fluorescent tracer technique, to practice as a tool to enhance pesticide handler training. The following partners bring to you this user friendly manual: Washington Department of Agriculture; Washington State University; Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center.
For more information or to order a hard copy of the manual contact
Kit Galvin, kgalvin@u.washington.edu or (206) 616-5850.
PNASH
t: (800) 330-0827, f: (206) 616-2687
pnash@u.washington.edu
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington,
School of Public Health
Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195-7234
© 2009, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
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