banana workers

My essay is advocating a policy that protects workers who spray pesticides on bananas. I am advocating a policy already implemented in the United States by the Environmental Protection Agency. It involves steps for educating and protecting workers. I think this policy will work because it is from a credible agency, the EPA, and has already been successfully implemented in the United States, where it protects 2.5 million agricultural workers and pesticide handlers. The policy involves educating workers with safety classes and using protective gear while using the pesticides. It also requires notification of when pesticides are being sprayed, which allows for restricted entry into areas where pesticides are present. In order to protect workers the policy also involves the use of decontamination equipment and the use of emergency medical services in the event of contamination.
This policy would work well in the banana industry because it protects workers from injuries incurred while in contact with pesticides, while still allowing for the necessary use of pesticides on the fruit. Other policies suggest the eventual fade out of pesticides but this does not seem plausible for the banana industry. Bananas are usually grown in poor countries, where the discontinuance of pesticide usage would lead to a loss in jobs, hurting the economy in such countries. Additionally, the breeds of bananas popularized around the world are stemmed from a rhizome that is over one hundred years old. This means that pests have had over one hundred years to adapt to effectively attacking this breed. There is no way the bananas could survive and meet health standards without the use of pesticides to protect them. For this reason, the EPA policy of taking measures to protect the workers would work best for the banana industry.