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Pesticide Safety Education Program
Identifying needs
Building coalitions
Making it happen
The value of robust land-grant university PSEPs
• Provide basic and essential, state-specific pesticide safety education on the safe and legal handling of pesticides from purchase to use and/or disposal
• Expand and support the network of pesticide safety educators
• Enhance educational opportunities for applicators seeking certification, for non-certified groups whose jobs involve pesticides, and for the general public
• Collaborate with state agencies
• Cooperate with the network of PSEPs, and other Land-Grant University extension and research experts….
• Furnish objective, science-based support to state and federal regulators who must increasingly assess proposed pesticide-related laws….
• Offer unique access to the state land-grant university’s broad extension and research knowledge base….
The value of robust land-grant university PSEPs
Federal funding for PSEP has fallen to zero.
About half of US states/territories have built self-sustaining programs.
• PSEP updates and distributes all pesticide study manuals
• PSEP partners with Extension agents to train private applicators (growers)
• PSEP partners with insurance and industry orgs to train commercial/public applicators
• PSEP partners with research scientists to research issues as needed (for example: respirator effectiveness)
• PSEP is known as CEPEP
• CEPEP maintains the calendar of training events for CO
• PSEP offers more webinars than in-person training events
• PSEP has limited capacity to collect revenue
• Private training companies have filled the gap in CO and some other states
• PSEP holds pre-certification training events in cooperation with other entities
• Montana Department of Agriculture holds post-certification training events on a regular basis
• Montana Department of Agriculture updates pesticide study materials by funding University experts
• PSEP updates and distributes the study materials
• PSEP provides a lot of WPS training for trainers, workers, and pesticide handlers
• County Commissioners, non-profits, and private companies deliver a lot of re-certification training events in addition to UC County agents (outside of PSEP)
Year 1 goals:
• Create a team of advisory stakeholders to guide PSEP priorities
• Partner with others to update study materials for pre-license preparation
• Partner with others to plan training courses for recertification credits
• Create web-based pre-license training modules
• Build capacity within the OSU Extension system to improve and increase pesticide-related training events
• Seek additional funding streams
Ongoing Goals
• Increase capacity to provide training in Spanish
• Increase capacity to provide training in southern and eastern Oregon
• Partner with public, private, and non-profit entities to deliver training
What are some gaps/needs?
Who should I partner with?
• OSU Extension faculty and staff
• Pesticide Analytical & Response Center (PARC)
• Oregon Wine Board
• Oregon Association of Nurseries
• Wheat League
• OHSU - Oregon Healthy Workforce
• OSU College of Public Health
• SAIF Corporation • Oregon Pest Control
Association
§ Oregon Tilth
§ Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
§ Xerces Society
§ Wilco, Simplot, etc.
§ Community Colleges
§ PSEPs at WSU, UC Davis, University of Idaho, etc.
§ National Pesticide Safety Education Center (NPSEC)
§ PSEP-IMI and National Stakeholder Team
§ _______________________
How can I partner with you to improve or initiate pesticide safety educational training or materials?
Building a PSEP Stakeholder Team
Likely to meet twice per year