title: Violations of pesticide use and worker safety regulations in North Carolina.
abstract: In North Carolina, responsibility for providing training and enforcing various regulations related to pesticide use and agricultural worker safety rests with three state agencies. This article summarizes an 11-year history of enforcement procedures concerning agricultural pesticide use, the Worker Protection Standard, the Hazard Communication Standard, the Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina, and field sanitation standards. The difficulty of linking specific types of violations with worker safety is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609, USA. wayne_buhler@ncsu.edu
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Buhler
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Langley
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Luginbuhl
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Burnette
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D006798:Housing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D009657:North Carolina; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D010575:Pesticides / Q000506:poisoning*; D012449:Safety; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides