Your Daily Poison - Pesticide Action Network UK

APPENDIX 4c
PAN UK survey: pesticide exposures reported to local
authorities
Local authorities use pesticides on their own estate and share, with the Health & Safety
Executive, the role of investigating pesticide exposure incidents .
Local authority Number and
nature of
complaints about
pesticides
received in 2004.
Barrow Borough
Council
Berwick-upon-
Tweed Borough
Council
Conwy County
Borough Council
City of Edinburgh
Council
Glasgow City
Council
Gosport Borough
Council
Newcastle-under-
Lyme Borough
Council
North Ayrshire
Council
North Dorset
District Council
Action taken. Do you as a Local
Authority have a
pesticides policy?
0 - No N/A – contracted
weed control.
What policies and What quantities
experiences do of pesticides did
you have of 1) you use in 2004?
the use of nonchemical
weed
control 2)
tolerance of some
weeds?
0 - No N/A Glyphosate 50
litres; diuron 50
litres; Caseron 5
CHECK 15kg;
Gramoxone
paraquat 1 litre
0 - ‘Not that I’m aware
of’.
What measures
do you take to
ensure your 1)
contract
specifiers and 2)
contractors are
appropriately
trained?
N/A Paperwork checked
to ensure
appropriately
trained.
8 x authorised
sprayers (all
Council employees
– no contractors)
with spraying
certificates (Council
course).
‘Not a great deal’. N/A ‘None that I’m
aware of’.
0 - No N/A N/A N/A
0 - Yes, Risk
Assessment
Document
No involvement in
weed control
3307kg of
rodenticides;
1172kg + 268.6
litres of
insecticides. In
October 2004 a
decision was made
not to use
carbamate or OP
pesticides.
0 - No None Unknown: we do
not deal directly
2: domestic use 1,
local authority use
1
No formal action. No Not known. 550 kg of
rodenticides; 50kg
of insecticides.
0 - Health & safety
policy, COSHH
assessment.
2: agricultural use
damaged domestic
plants.
Referred To HSE No 1) Rather than
spray, tend to
remove 2) Yes
(control on
complaint where
not high street
areas)
No external
contractors used.
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N/A
Staff training.
None. 1706.5kg
Don’t have
rodenticides and 36 contractors.
litres+11400ml+92
kg+25272 grams
insecticides.
Round-up 5 litres
(now no longer
used); Touchdown
60 litres;
Phosphenic acid
360 g/l.
PA1 and PA6
trained personnel
only (2 staff
members)
North East
0 - No None 2000 litres Glyphus In-house fully
Lincolnshire Council
Gold; 65 litres trained:
Chipco Green; 30
litres Carbendazim;
60 litres Finale; 100
litres Supa Nova
(oil based)
PA1/PA2/PA6.