Agriculture Training Requirements

Temporary Labor Camps—1928.142 Logging—1928.266 Hazard Communication—1928.1200 Cadmium—1928.1027 

Roll-Over Protective Structures (ROPS) for Tractors Used in Agricultural Operations—1928.51(d) 

Guarding of Farm Field Equipment, Farmstead Equipment, and Cotton Gins—1928.57(a)(6) (i) through (v) 

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Detection and Diagnosis of Crop Diseases. Diagnosis of infectious diseases of crops is one of the near term uses of immunoassays in agriculture ( ). Effective management of plant diseases requires that crop managers have access to timely and accurate information on threats to their crop. Existing plant disease diagnostic procedures require trained personnel, well-equipped laboratories. 

Ideally an alternative test for toxic chemicals would be inexpensive. It would not require any specialized equipment, only equipment normally found in a laboratory should be required. The test should not require that the personnel be specially trained in the techniques. It should involve only the procedures that any laboratory worker would know. It should be the sort of test that any laboratory with a tangential interest in toxicology could carry out. Water quality laboratories, industrial safety laboratories, agricultural research laboratories, should be able to carry out the procedure. Small samples should be tested. Tests with fish often involve quite large volumes of toxic chemicals and this can limit their utility. This has been diseussed in detail by Blaise (1991). 

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