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Pesticide Use & Environmental Hazards

  • Pesticide-Application
    May 13, 2025

    Part 4: Understanding FIFRA Compliance for Pesticide-Application Companies

    By Kathy Glassey

      As a pesticide-application company, compliance with regulations is not just a legal requirement, it’s a fundamental part of operating safely and responsibly. One of the most important regulations you need to be aware of is the Federal Insecticide, [...]

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  • Pesticide applications
    April 9, 2025

    Part 3: Safety and Compliance for Pesticide Applicators, Technicians and Your Business

    By Kathy Glassey

    Ensuring the safety and compliance of pesticide application is essential for protecting not only your workers but also the community, the environment and your business. Pesticide applicators, technicians and businesses must adhere to strict guidelines, regulations and best practices to [...]

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  • Workers in yellow shirts and white hard hats standing in a circle outside with equipment.
    July 1, 2023

    Training Tree Crews on Wildland Fire Prevention and Suppression

    By Geoffrey Taylor, MA

    Rancho Tree Service safety personnel provide their annual training using bilingual instruction on the proper usage of a "water buffalo" mobile water tank and pump trailer for use on high-fire-risk job sites. Unless otherwise noted, photos courtesy of the author. [...]

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  • July 23, 2021

    Wildfire Prevention and Suppression Training

    By Don Staruk, With Mark Shipp, CIC, CTSP

    Those directly involved in the tree care industry or, more specifically, in utility-vegetation management can play a role in preventing, or causing, wildfires. Photo courtesy of Josh Caudill. A wildfire can be caused in an instant – a lightning strike, [...]

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  • February 1, 2021

    Cold-Weather Work Safety Precautions

    By Alex Martin, BCMA

    It is important for employers and employees to understand appropriate measures for protecting the individual in the workplace during cold weather. Photos by Robert Knight, Timberland Tree Service, Ltd., courtesy of the author. In cold-weather conditions, we tend to focus [...]

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