Ontario Pesticide Exam: Containers, spills and disposal

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1. The original container of a Class C product cracks in your van. What is required?

   1. Pour the product into a drink bottle until the job
   2. Clean up and move the product to an equivalent labelled container
   3. Tape the crack firmly and keep using the original container as before
   4. Leave it in the van until the next ministry inspection

2. Where must you NOT wash spray equipment?

   1. In a contained area away from any water source
   2. On the job site, using the rinse in the treated area
   3. In or near a lake or well, where runoff could reach it
   4. At a wash station designed to contain rinsate

3. When you report a spill, which information will you be asked for?

   1. Only the colour and smell of the spilled product
   2. What spilled, how much, where, when and the response
   3. Only whether the spill is on public or private land
   4. Only your licence number and company name

4. How should leftover concentrate never be disposed of?

   1. Through a municipal hazardous waste program
   2. According to the label disposal directions
   3. Poured down a drain
   4. By returning unopened product to the supplier

5. Where should a rinsed pesticide container go?

   1. Back to the client so they can use it to store garden tools
   2. Into a residential blue-box recycling bin
   3. To a pesticide container depot or approved disposal
   4. Into a lake or river after cutting it up

6. Pesticides are stolen from your service vehicle. What does the regulation require?

   1. Report it only at your next licence renewal with the ministry
   2. Notify the Spills Action Centre as soon as practicable
   3. Notify only the client whose job was next
   4. Nothing, if the products were Class C

7. A fire breaks out where pesticides are stored and runoff may reach a creek. Whom must you notify immediately?

   1. The pesticide manufacturer only
   2. The ministry's Spills Action Centre
   3. Health Canada's PMRA by email
   4. Your insurance broker only

8. When is a pesticide container considered empty under O. Reg. 63/09?

   1. When no liquid drips out after one minute
   2. When the label has been fully peeled off
   3. When it feels lighter than half its weight
   4. When less than 2.5 cm of material remains

9. What is the Spills Action Centre's toll-free number?

   1. 1-800-461-6290
   2. 1-800-731-4000
   3. 1-800-268-6060
   4. 1-888-620-9999

10. An empty plastic jug held a Class C insecticide. What must happen to it first?

    1. Throw it straight into the household garbage bin
    2. Refill it with another product the same day
    3. Burn it in a barrel behind the shop at night
    4. Triple-rinse or jet-rinse it promptly

11. You fill a sprayer with water from a well. What must you do?

    1. Fill it only with water heated above 40°C to dissolve the product
    2. Take measures to prevent backflow into the well
    3. Fill it only after the pesticide is added
    4. Fill it only when the well pump is off

12. Which empty container does NOT need to be rinsed?

    1. A glass bottle
    2. A plastic jug
    3. A metal pail
    4. An aerosol can

13. What is the preferred use for rinse water from triple-rinsing a container?

    1. Pour it onto gravel behind the building
    2. Keep it in the empty container for later
    3. Pour it down the nearest storm sewer grate
    4. Add it to the spray tank and use it on the job