Alberta Pesticide Legislation, Safety, and Application Guidelines Practice Test

Pesticide illness prevention focuses on stopping the ways a person can absorb pesticides during handling and application. The main routes are through the skin, eyes, and lungs—dermal contact, eye exposure, and inhalation. Protecting against these routes means using appropriate PPE such as gloves, protective clothing, eye protection, and respirators, as well as practicing safe handling, decontamination, and good hygiene to prevent splash, drift, or accidental inhalation. The other options don’t address how illness from pesticides typically occurs: noise exposure isn’t a chemical illness risk, sun exposure isn’t related to pesticide toxicity, and while ingestion can happen, treating it as the sole cause misses the primary entry points that prevention strategies target.