This Pesticide Registration notice announces EPA's approach for managing risk to workers who may be exposed to organophosphate pesticide products by mixing, loading, applying, flagging or otherwise handling organophosphate pesticides, or are exposed to residues of these pesticides while performing tasks in recently treated areas. This approach generally provides for basic protective measures such as closed mixing and loading systems, enclosed cab equipment, or personal protective equipment, as well as increased restricted-entry intervals for occupational situations where revised risk assessments indicate that they are necessary and where these measures are feasible. Further, this notice outlines the steps that EPA intends to take to address situations where baseline mitigation measures are not feasible, or situations where maximum feasible mitigation is still inadequate to protect workers. 

• PRN 2000-9: Worker Risk Mitigation for Organophosphate Pesticides (PDF)(11 pp, 31 K)
• Response to Public Comments on the Draft Pesticide Registration Notice on Worker Risk Mitigation for Organophosphate Pesticides (PDF)(18 pp, 246 K)