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What is in the manual?

• Complete educational package
• Key messages
• Step-by-step instructions
• Supply lists
• Tips on using fluorescent tracers

 

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How can fluorescent tracers be used?
• Quick Demos: Light up your discussion with short easy classroom demonstrations.

• Hands-on Activities: Participants learn by doing with scripted role plays and hands-on practice off        decontamination procedures.

• Workplace Pesticide Application: Seeing is believing with tracer in the tank during an application. Asess how        pesticide safety procedures and equipment are protecting pesticide handlers.

 

How does the fluorescent tracer technique work? 
• Mimics pesticide contamination on clothes, skin, and on there surfaces

• Invisible under normal light
• Glows brightly under black lights

 

Why is the fluorescent tracer technique a good   teaching tool?
• Provides immediate feedback

• Promotes discussion

• Transcends language and literacy barriers

 

This manual brings a research method, the fluorescent tracer technique, to practical 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

 

 

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For more information or to order a hard copy of the manual contact
Kit Galvin, kgalvin@u.washington.edu or 206.616.5850.