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Pesticide Safety Education Quick Links:

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) gives EPA the authority to classify pesticides for restricted use and requires persons who use restricted use pesticides to be certified. CEPEP coordinates the continual development and maintenance of training materials, programs and examinations which are used by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in the Pesticide Applicator Certification and Training Program.

Commercial applicators are professionals who are in the business of applying pesticides. Commercial applicators apply pesticides as a major part of their jobs to land or property that they do not own or lease.

Private applicators, including farmers, ranchers and greenhouse growers, are certified to use Restricted-Use pesticides to produce agricultural commodities on land that they or their employers own or lease. To be certified in Colorado, private applicators must obtain and review the Colorado Private Pesticide Applicator Training Manual, then send an application form with a questionnaire to the Pesticide Section of the EPA Region 8 Office. EPA provides both the referenced manual and applicator training to private applicators in Colorado. Generally, an applicator certificate will be mailed within a month of receipt of a completed application.

Factsheets                                                           - Return to top -

EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs also has a factsheet on Assessing Health Risks from Pesticides.

Follow this link to visit the USDA CSREES Pesticide Safety Education Program. For additional information and publications from other states go to the American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators (AAPSE) web page.

 

Handbooks & Training Guides                                             - Return to top -

The 2004 Colorado Weed Management Guide is now available for download in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, click here for a free download OR you can purchase a print copy or a CD-ROM from the CSU Extension Resource Center (see below).

There are several guides available through the Colorado State University Extension Resource Center:

Training Videos                                                          - Return to top -

CEPEP has several instructional training videos available for checkout.  Click here to search the video database by title and/or description in four categories.

Pesticide Disposal Resources                                             - Return to top -

 

The following training materials and resources were created to address the need for pesticide disposal information in Colorado. The materials were developed for use by homeowners, growers, commercial and private pesticide applicators, cooperative extension personnel, and others who develop pesticide safety programs or need information on how and where to dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous pesticides in Colorado.

 

Waste Pesticide Disposal in Colorado PowerPoint Presentation 

This presentation is designed to:  

  • Give an overview of the safe disposal of pesticides and containers, disposal of hazardous waste pesticides in Colorado, and disposal of household hazardous wastes  

  • Provide a basic informational presentation, which can be copied and adapted to suit the interests of specific audiences. An editable .ppt version is available by request.

 

The following handouts can be used as is or can be adapted for pesticide safety programs:

For more information or to request any of these resources, please contact Betsy Buffington at 970-491-3947 or by email at sandra.mcdonald@colostate.edu. Please visit Colorado ChemSweep if you have any unwanted, unused, or banned/outdated pesticide waste that you wish to dispose of.

 

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