Pesticide
residues are always present in the fields. While working
in the fields your hands are exposed to pesticide residues,
which you then carry from the fields. Washing your hands
with soap and cold or hot water will rinse the pesticide
residues off your hands.
Washing
your hands when you leave the field will keep you from carrying
the residues on your hands to your home. Before eating,
drinking, smoking, or going to the bathroom while at your
workplace, you need to wash your hands to keep the pesticides
from contaminating your body.
It
is the employer's legal responsibility to provide a hand
washing basin with water, disposable towels and soap within
1/4 mile of work.
You
should never eat in the fields. Pesticide residues are always
in the fields, and you can contaminate yourself through
your mouth by eating in areas affected by pesticides.
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