| (a) Development of crop sheets.
(1) The department shall develop crop sheets which
contain information relevant to specific crops including pesticides
most commonly used on particular crops, the acute and chronic health
effects of these pesticides, ways to minimize pesticide exposure,
recommended medical emergency measures, and agricultural laborers'
rights.
(2) For purposes of developing crop sheets and complying
with other provisions of the Act and this chapter, the department
will consider each of the following logical groupings to be a single
crop:
(A) nursery stock; and
(B) citrus.
(3) The information on crop sheets shall be provided
in both English and Spanish.
(4) The department may provide crop sheets in other
languages commonly used by agricultural laborers who work with a particular
crop.
(5) The department shall annually provide to each covered
employer copies of appropriate crop sheets for crops grown in the
relevant region. If a covered employer has not received a crop sheet
for any crop that the covered employer grows, the covered employer
shall request appropriate crop sheets from the local regional office
of the department or the Service.
(6) The department shall update and distribute crop
sheets as significant new information becomes available.
(b) Providing and reading crop sheets to laborers.
(1) A covered employer shall provide an appropriate
crop sheet and ensure that the information on the crop sheet designated
by the department is read to each agricultural laborer including each
laborer assigned to a new crop. This information shall be read in
either Spanish or English, as appropriate. The most current crop sheets
for the crops the laborer will be working with shall be provided and
read on the first day of the work season or the first day the laborer
begins employment, whichever is later. For nursery or greenhouse workers,
the work season shall be deemed to run from January 1 to December
31 of each calendar year. The covered employer shall provide and ensure
that the appropriate information on crop sheets is read prior to the
time the laborer begins to work.
(2) A covered employer may comply with the obligation
under paragraph (1) of this subsection to ensure that the appropriate
information is read by playing to laborers a tape recording of the
information required to be read.
(3) A covered employer shall inform those agricultural
laborers to whom the covered employer is required to read a crop sheet,
including each laborer who is assigned to a different crop or job,
of the product name of the covered pesticide chemical, the date and
time it was last applied or is scheduled to be applied to the work
area, and the expiration date of its reentry interval, except that
such information is not required to be provided to those agricultural
laborers who are not field laborers. An example of this type of agricultural
laborer is a packing shed worker who works only in the shed.
(4) A covered employer does not have to provide or
read a crop sheet or provide the information described in paragraph
(3) of this subsection to an agricultural laborer who has a card issued
under the Act, §125.009(g), except that a crop sheet is required
to be provided to any agricultural laborer upon request.
(5) A covered employer shall provide crop sheets and
the information described in paragraph (3) of this subsection to any
agricultural laborer upon request.
(6) A covered employer may comply with the requirements
of paragraph (1) of this subsection for its agricultural laborers
who are not field workers by posting in a conspicuous place at the
work area a replica of the crop sheets for crops which are handled
by those laborers. The posters must be at least 14 inches by 22 inches
and must contain all of the information included on the crop sheet(s)
for crops handled by those laborers.
(c) A covered employer shall offer to each agricultural
laborer, on the day on which the laborer is first paid for that work
season, basic safety and health-related information provided to the
covered employer by the department.
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