In a new post on the Environmental Protection Agency’s blog, Assistant Administrator Jim Jones discusses his agency’s efforts to ensure farmworkers are better protected with proposed revisions to the Worker Protection Standard.
Following this year’s 15th annual Farmworker Awareness Week, which concluded with a national day to commemorate the legacy of Cesar Chavez, Jones explained the importance of updating the 20-year old regulation to provide more protections to farmworkers from pesticide exposure.
“Farmworkers continue to toil during insufferable heat and rain and are exposed to dangerous pesticides with very little training on the hazards these pesticides cause,” Jones writes. “Farmworkers grow, tend and harvest our food. They deserve to be protected.” Read his blog to learn more about the EPA’s proposed changes.
