MSU Extension offers statewide worker protection standard training

Montana State University News Service

BOZEMAN — The Montana State University Pesticide Education Program and the Montana Department of Agriculture are coordinating three regional worker protection standard, or WPS, trainings next month in an effort to update the state’s agricultural community.

Training sessions will be offered in Glasgow May 1, Great Falls May 2 and Kalispell May 3.

The WPS is an Environmental Protection Agency regulation designed to protect agricultural workers who perform tasks related to growing and harvesting plants on an agricultural site and handlers who mix,...