The US EPA has proposed relaxing a farmworker safety rule that bars individuals from areas where pesticides are being applied.The US EPA has proposed relaxing a farmworker safety rule that bars individuals from areas where pesticides are being applied. The agency says that the move would make the requirements more effective and easier to implement. The proposal came last week and would change a provision of the Worker Protection Standard (WPS) called the Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ), which effectively creates a buffer zone around pesticide application equipment and requires the area to be free of all individuals bar the applicator when a pesticide is being applied. The AEZ is set at 25 ft (8 m) in all directions for ground pesticide applications and 100-feet in all directions for all other kinds of pesticide applications.
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