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Manual 5:PESTICIDES AND HEALTH,SAFETY & THE ENVIRONMENT(c) the maintenance, repair and cleaning of equipment andcontainers for chemicals; and(d) the disposal of empty containers and the treatment anddisposal of chemical waste and obsolete chemicals.In addition, Recommendation No. 192 provides the following guidance:Sound management of chemicalsParagraph 7. (1) The measures prescribed concerning the soundmanagement of chemicals in agriculture should be taken in the light of theprinciples of the Chemicals Convention and Recommendation, 1990, andother relevant international technical standards.(2) In particular, preventive and protective measures to be taken at thelevel of the undertaking should include:(a) adequate personal protective equipment and clothing, andwashing facilities for those using chemicals and for the maintenanceand cleaning of personal protective and application equipment, atno cost to the worker;(b) spraying and post--spraying precautions in areas treated withchemicals including measures to prevent pollution of food, drinking,washing and irrigation water sources;(c) handling or disposal of hazardous chemicals which are nolonger required, and containers which have been emptied but whichmay contain residues of hazardous chemicals, in a manner whicheliminates or minimizes the risk to safety and health and to theenvironment, in accordance with national law and practice;(d) keeping a register of the application of pesticides used inagriculture;(e) training of agricultural workers on a continuing basis toinclude, as appropriate, training in the practices and procedures orabout hazards and on the precautions to be followed in connectionwith the use of chemicals at work.For other HS&E information provided by the ILO see the followingwebpage: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/index.htmUN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)The FAO International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use ofPesticides, which was updated in 2003, is intended to be used bycountries as a set of guiding principles for the distribution, handling andeffective use of pesticides. It is voluntary but establishes a minimuminternational standard for monitoring the standards of governments andthe pesticide industry. It lays down the responsibilities of governments,manufacturers and distributors. The issues covered by the Code includethe regulation, availability, distribution, and health aspects of pesticideuse, as well as advertising, labelling, packaging, storage, disposal and theprinciple of Prior Informed Consent (see below).240 Health, Safety and EnvironmentA Series of Trade Union EducationManuals for Agricultural Workers
Manual 5:PESTICIDES AND HEALTH,SAFETY & THE ENVIRONMENTThe Code is designed to assist countries in introducing necessaryimprovements in national capacities and capabilities in the effectivemanagement of pesticides, as well as to establish standards for industriesmanufacturing and trading in pesticides.The FAO Code is a key reference document which trade unions andnon-governmental organisations have regularly used to help improvenational standards on pesticides HS&E and to ensure that pesticidecompanies meet high standards.Experience with the Code has shown that its use has been instrumental inassisting many countries to initiate and/or strengthen pesticidemanagement activities.UN FAO/UNEP and the Prior Informed Consent ConventionThe legally-binding Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed ConsentProcedure (PIC) for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides inInternational Trade 1998 is administered through a joint secretariat. TheUN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is responsible for pesticides,and the United Nations Programme for the Environment (UNEP) forindustrial chemicals.The PIC Convention is an information exchange, notification and consentprocedure. It aims to ensure that international shipment of a chemical thathas been banned or severely restricted in any country in order to protecthuman health or the environment, or, severely hazardous pesticideformulations causing health or environmental problems under conditionsof use in developing countries, do not proceed without the prior consent ofthe government of the importing country, based on prior information on thehazards of the chemical, and prevention and control measures etc, fromthe exporter (or via the importer) of that substance.Exporting countries are required to give prior notification to importingcountries of the intended export of a PIC list chemical, and the exporterhas to supply prior information to the importing country government onthe nature of the chemical, its hazards, prevention measures etc(including notifying their own national government). The importingcountry evaluates this information. It then either gives or refuses itsconsent as to whether to allow import, or sets conditions on the import.The exporter is bound to abide by the consent decision even if it does notpermit import. Exporting country governments then have a duty to ensurethat their exporters abide by the consent decision and do not exportwhere consent has been refused.Chemicals and pesticides included in the PIC procedure are put on a PIClist, at the request of governments provided they meet the criteria laiddown in the Convention. Trade unions and NGOs can play an important rolein collecting information/reports of poisonings and incidents from specificpesticides with a view to their Governments using such data to request thatthe pesticides causing these problems are put on the PIC list and subjectto the PIC procedure. Severely hazardous pesticide formulations currentlyon the PIC list include: 2,4,5-T, aldrin, captafol, chlordane,chlordimeform, chlorobenzilate, DDT, 1,2-dibromoethane (EDB), dieldrin,241 Health, Safety and EnvironmentA Series of Trade Union EducationManuals for Agricultural Workers
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