Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: : Target audiences include three primary groups: (1) pesticide applicators, (2) health care providers, and (3) Maryland residents seeking pesticide information. (1) PESTICIDE APPLICATORS targeted by PSEP include (a.) commercial and private applicators; (b) registered employees (i.e., those working under the supervision of a certified applicator); (c)those whose job-related responsibilities include at least occasional application of pesticides (e.g., employees of schools, day care facilities, parks, restaurants, etc.). A secondary audience is comprised of those whose jobs require them to reenter pesticide-treated areas and thus may be exposed to pesticide residues (primarily workers at farms, forests, greenhouses, and nurseries). (2) HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS targeted include (a) those who provide primary health care and (b) first responders at accidents. (3) MARYLAND STAKEHOLDERS include those who may apply pesticide to their own yards or homes, and/or those who have questions about the use of pesticides, residues in food and water, exposure and its implications, etc. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? (1) APPLICATOR TRAINING. Through MD PSEP, 553 applicators were trained for initial certification, and 6112 were trained for recertification. Six major recertification conferences serving applicators in Maryland and the surrounding region were offered in the following commercial applicator categories: agricultural production, production of turf & ornamentals, landscape pest control, structural pest control, right-of-way pest control, aquatic pest control, and forest pest control. Private applicator initial and recertification training workshops were offered through the counties and regional extension education centers. (2) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.(a) In-service training on pesticide issues was offered for UM extension educators. Twenty extension educators attended, and two more Extension educators who could not attend received the professional development packets from the meeting; thusall of those with responsibilities for developing/delivering pesticide safety education, as well as several who do not offer the training but wanted to learn the subject matter themselves benefited from the training. (b) The MD PSEP Coordinator maintains and updates an internal password-protected website for use by bExtension educators throughout the state. On this website, the Extension educators can access training materials to use in their own outreach sessions to the target audience as well as al of the rofessional development mateirals developed and distriuted to them throughout the year by the Cordinator. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? In 2013, MD PSEP deliered education through the following methods: meetings, workshpsand conferences; publications; newsletters; websites. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
MD PSEP conducts two surveys each year during applicator recertification conferences for Rights-of-Way, Forest, and Aquatic Pest Control. The first questionnaire asks the applicators to list any pesticide handling practices they expect to change based on the information that was presented during the current conference. The second questionnaire asks returning applicators to list the practices they actually did change as a result of their attendance at the previous year's conference. In March 2013, 89% of applicators attending indicated they expected to improve at least one pesticide handling practice based on information learned in the March 2012 training workshop. Of returning participants, 91% indicated they actually had improved at least one pesticide handling practice based on information learned at the 2012 conference.
Publications
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
1. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 11: Practices for Safe Use. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 3 pp.
2. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 16: Handling Pesticide Spills. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 5 pp.
3. Brown, A.E., W. Curtis, and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 18: Pesticide Applicator Checklist. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 6 pp.
4. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 25: Developing a Pesticide Exposure History. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 10 pp.
5. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 26: Comparing Symptoms of Heat Stress and Pesticide Poisoning. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 3 pp.
6. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 27: Understanding Pesticides. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 2 pp.
7. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 28: How to Read a Pesticide Label. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 9 pp.
8. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 29: How to Read a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 6 pp.
9. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 31: Health Care Providers Access to Pesticide Information. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 2 pp.
10. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 33: Pesticides and Cancer. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 13 pp.
11. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 36: Pesticide Usage and Exposure Patterns. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 6 pp.
12. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 40: Pesticide Regulatory Information and Resources on the Internet. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 2 pp.
13. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 41: Mode of Action of Structural Pest Control Chemicals. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 8 pp.
14. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 42: Mode of Action of Landscape Insecticides and Miticides. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 9 pp.
15. Brown, A.E. and E. Ingianni. 2013 (Rev.) PIL No. 43: Mode of Action of Insecticides and Related Pest Control Chemicals for Production Agriculture, Ornamentals, and Turf. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 13 pp.
16. Ingianni , E. and A.E. Brown. 2013. PIL No. 46: First Aid for Pesticide Emergencies. Pesticide Information Leaflet Series, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 3 pp.
17. Brown, A.E. 2013. Intranet Website Update. Pesticide Safety Educators' Briefs Series. Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 3 pp.
18. Brown, A.E. 2013. Pesticide Applicator Training Topics for 2013 2014. Pesticide Safety Educators' Briefs Series. Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 4 pp.
19. Brown, A.E. 2013. Lyme Disease Update. Pesticide Safety Educators' Briefs Series. Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of MD Ext., College Park, MD. 3 pp.
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