Hi . Welcome to the Grower Pesticide
Safety Course. This is Chapter 14,
How to Store Pesticides Safely and
Chapter 14 starts on page 149 of the
manual. There are twenty slides in the
presentation and it will take us about
15 minutes to review. Pesticide Storage:
What will I learned by the end of this lesson?
You should be ready to, list the storage
requirements for pesticides, describe the
recommendations for building a pesticide
storage, describe how to replace the
damaged container, list tips for storing
pesticides safely. So here's the
pesticide storage and this is the
storage we actually have at Ridgetown
Campus. Proper storage prevents accidents. Safe storage protects family members,
employees, visitors, and the environment
from harm from pesticides. A clean,
well-organized pesticide storage can
prevent many problems. There are rules
and regulations under the Pesticides
Act and Regulation 63/09 regarding the
storage of pesticides. So for all
pesticides, store pesticides away
from food drinks, pet food, or livestock
feed and you would transport pesticides
in a locked compartment of the vehicle
where the public cannot touch them. So
for any pesticide that we're transporting
and we're storing, these are the two key
ones which make sense. Now in addition
to that there are other pesticide
storage requirements and that's based on
the Class, the Ontario Class of the
pesticide that you're storing. Now
remember that Class 2s and Class
3 pesticides are the pesticides we
would use most often for agricultural
uses but sometimes we would use Class
4s for agriculture. And perhaps you
don't actually have a Class 2 or Class 3
pesticide.
If you're storing the less hazardous
pesticides in Classes 4 5 6 7 or 8 --  8
being the ones that are
band domestically, but you still may have
some on your your operation. So no
contact with food or drink and not
impair the health of safety of anyone. 
They must be stored in a clean and
orderly manner, a warning sign must be
posted on the storage door, so the
pesticide storage warning sign, and if
you need one of those we have some
available here and emergency telephone
numbers posted they should be close to
or in logged in a phone that people
could use if there was an emergency. So
that's the five requirements of
pesticides for Class 4,5, 6, 7
or 8. Now we usually for agricultural
purposes need to use a Class 2
occasionally and sometimes the Class
3s, so we're going to have to add on
some additional requirements to our
pesticide storage. Now it needs to be
ventilated to the outside, limited access,
and that would be put a lock on it,
and no floor drain, and safety equipment
available, nearby in case you have to
respond to a spill or something
happening in the pesticide storage. So
before you go in have your safety
equipment somewhere located outside that
storage building. Now
for the Class 2s which are the most
hazardous, you would have to have an area
that is a pesticide storage area only
for pesticides. Nothing else would be in
there. No brooms, No hoses or anything
just exclusively, primarily for pesticides. And those extra requirements are good
to do for Class 4 products as well, so
it's always good to have a good storage
facility that keeps you organized and
meets all the regulations. Okay. Let's
review those a little bit. First you
might want to think about where are
you going to store your pesticides.  Now this is a farmer that was close to
Ridgetown and he was building a new
pesticide storage building. So he chose a
free standing building but it could be
a separate room within another building:
a non-absorbent floor with a two inch
curb, a door that opens directly to the
outside,an insulated or heated cabinet
for pesticides if they need protection
from freezing, and some of them do, and
that is on the pesticide label, and an
area to store flammable or combustible
pesticides which would be away from
where the other pesticides are. So these
are things to keep in mind if you're
going to build a new pesticide storage
and extra -- you can see the wide
door he has so we can bring a skid or a
bulk container of pesticides in and out
plus he has a small door to the side as
well to get in and out. There's things
to think about for your pesticide
storage building. You can also think
about maybe putting it in an area that's
in a low traffic area, away from places
where food or feed is stored, away from
the wells, the ditches, ponds or streams
on the farm, but you still want a place
where there's good access for you to use.
Also access to firefighters and
emergency responders. The top picture
here is one on an apple orchard and the
second one is one that was a pre-bought
storage unit and a containment unit and
then storage sign on the outside for
that one. So stop people from
entering without your permission. So the
way to do that best would be to lock, so
keep it locked, and the other thing is
again post that pesticide storage
warning sign. So here's a picture of
those chemical storage warning signs
that I'm talking about here and signs
are available through the Workplace
Safety Prevention
Services. To order there's their phone
number there if you want to write it
down. It's also in your book -- call 1-877-494-9777
or you can go online
to their website. Visit their website and
pop in to search "chemical storage signs"
and that should pop up --  and you're able
to purchase them online as well. Okay. Be
prepared for emergencies in the storage
area. So you may end up with a spill, a
container may be leaking. If that's the
case, protect yourself first before
rushing in to clean up a spill . You're
going to put on gloves, perhaps a  respirator, coveralls,  the
disposable coveralls, would be handy and you
would put on boots as well. So you
want to keep protection clothing
equipment close by but not in the
pesticide storage because it might get
contaminated in the storage itself but
if there's another room close by that
you can keep it in and so you know where
to put it on if you need to. Keep the
number for the Spills Action Centre by
the phone or put it in your cell phone
directory. And then an absorbent kit
so a Spills Action Kit of your own on
the farm, absorbent like kitty litter for
spill cleanup and your protective
clothing and equipment of course, shovel
and things like that, plastic bag,
container for contaminated materials
also helps. So if you have a leak or
something happening with the container
you want to check them regularly just do
a glance around the pesticide storage
when you're in there but you may find a
bag has broken open or a container is
leaking.  And in this case, this is a bag
and then it was put into another bag to
contain that spill.  So if you need a
replacement container you need to
replace it with one of the same type of
material. So if it was a plastic you
would put it in a plastic.  We used to
have more glass, pesticides in glass and
tin, but now we're using certainly more
plastic. But don't use a container that
looks like a food or drink container
because
those can be tempting for others who
are unaware, to use them thinking it is
a food or a drink inside. Label it with
trade name or common name ,concentration
of each active ingredient, and the
registration number. So those are three
requirements under the Regulation 63/09.
But best of all would be to go online,
print off a new label from the PMRA's
label database and then put that
directly with that container so we have
complete directions plus a clear
indication that this is a pesticide. Okay. Best practice: print the new label and
keep it with the container. I'm just
going to mention here a little bit about
treated seed. Treated seed, of course, has
is seed that has pesticide on it so it
needs to be stored out of reach of
children, pets and livestock. So store
treated seed in a separate area. You may
not want to put that in with your
pesticides because if the pesticide
spill happens, you don't need that spill
happening onto your seed, and you want
to protect your seed from contamination.
So an idea would be to store your
treated seed somewhere else. Storage tips,
our last slide in the series here. Read
the label for specific storage
information on that pesticide. Keep the
storage area dry, neat and tidy, buy what
you need for one growing season. Keep a
current inventory list and keep it up to
date. That's good so you have it for
firefighting if you have to pass that
along to them, hopefully not, and keep a
second copy of the inventory list maybe
in a different location.  Keep a supply of soap and water nearby
for cleanup. So just good storage tips,
good best practices being clean and
orderly, tidy, having a good storage will
prevent accidents from happening.
