{"id":194524,"date":"2025-05-12T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet-new\/?p=194524"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:45:29","slug":"cultivating-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/news\/cultivating-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Caution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Universities play a critical role in setting standards for safety and environmental responsibility, especially when it comes to pesticide use in research, teaching, and grounds management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is essential that all&nbsp;CALS&nbsp;departments strictly adhere to the&nbsp;<strong>Worker Protection Standard (WPS)&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 a federal regulation administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) \u2014 to ensure the health and safety of faculty, researchers, staff and students who may come into contact with agricultural pesticides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Worker Protection Standard (WPS) for Pesticide Handlers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2RGYppZw_E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Compliance with WPS helps prevent pesticide-related illnesses and enforces best practices in training, personal protective equipment, recordkeeping, and restricted entry intervals. Department heads, faculty and researchers must be proactive in maintaining compliance not only to meet legal requirements, but also to uphold the university\u2019s commitment to safety and environmental stewardship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on how to comply with WPS regulations, visit the EPA\u2019s WPS page:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pesticide-worker-safety\/worker-protection-standard-wps\">www.epa.gov\/pesticide-worker-safety\/worker-protection-standard-wps<\/a>. CALS employees should go to their supervisor or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ehs.ncsu.edu\/occupational-health\/pesticide-exposure-prevention\/\">NC&#160;State University\u2019s Environmental Health and Safety<\/a>&nbsp;for additional guidance.<a id=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Universities play a critical role in setting standards for safety and environmental responsibility, especially when it comes to pesticide use in research, teaching, and grounds management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is essential that all&nbsp;CALS&nbsp;departments strictly adhere to the&nbsp;<strong>Worker Protection Standard (WPS)&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 a federal regulation administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) \u2014 to ensure the health and safety of faculty, researchers, staff and students who may come into contact with agricultural pesticides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2RGYppZw_E\",\"type\":\"rich\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"embed-handler\",\"responsive\":true,\"className\":\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2RGYppZw_E\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:embed -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Compliance with WPS helps prevent pesticide-related illnesses and enforces best practices in training, personal protective equipment, recordkeeping, and restricted entry intervals. Department heads, faculty and researchers must be proactive in maintaining compliance not only to meet legal requirements, but also to uphold the university\u2019s commitment to safety and environmental stewardship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information on how to comply with WPS regulations, visit the EPA\u2019s WPS page:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pesticide-worker-safety\/worker-protection-standard-wps\">www.epa.gov\/pesticide-worker-safety\/worker-protection-standard-wps<\/a>. CALS employees should go to their supervisor or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ehs.ncsu.edu\/occupational-health\/pesticide-exposure-prevention\/\">NC State University\u2019s Environmental Health and Safety<\/a>&nbsp;for additional guidance.<a id=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities play a critical role in setting standards for safety and environmental responsibility, especially when it comes to pesticide use in research, teaching, and grounds management.&nbsp; It is essential that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2917,"featured_media":145067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194537,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194524\/revisions\/194537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}