en Occupational Health Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Background:</strong> To eliminate the pests of their crops and gardens, farmers use pesticides, where the unsafe use and lack of knowledge of using them inflict irreparable physical harms to them and those around them. Therefore, this study was done to find out which behaviors are the determinants of the safe use of pesticides among pistachio farmers in Ardakan city based on the Health Belief Model.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> This cross-sectional study, with a descriptive correlational approach, was conducted in 2014 on 301 farmers selected via proportionate stratified random sampling using a researcher-made questionnaire in Ardakan city. The questionnaire consisted of demographic variables and HBM constructs, such as perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, self-efficacy, cues to action, and safety behaviors.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> The mean score of knowledge was 25.64 &plusmn; 7.45 out of 38, and the subjects received 60% of the score. In addition, the mean score of perceived susceptibility was 32.72 &plusmn; 7.79 out of 55, the mean score of perceived severity was 33.53 &plusmn; 8.44 out of 55, the mean score of perceived benefits was 25.99 &plusmn; 5.59 out of 30, and the mean score of perceived barriers was 17.99 &plusmn; 4.5 out of 30. Other results are presented in the section &lsquo;results&rsquo; of the article.<br> <strong>Conclusions:</strong> Given the mean scores obtained, there is a need for developing a training program based on the results to reduce damage caused by pesticides, with safe measures to be adopted.</span><br> &nbsp;</div> Pesticides,Occupational Health,Farmers, 21 28 http://johe.rums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-300-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad mazloomy.mm@gmail.com 22400319475328460010861 22400319475328460010861 No Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science Mojtaba Fattahi Ardakani mjfattahi57@gmail.com 22400319475328460010862 22400319475328460010862 Yes School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science Narges Hossein Zadeh hoseinzade@gmail.com 22400319475328460010863 22400319475328460010863 No School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science Seyed Mostafa Mazloomy Mahmoodabad mazloomy@yahoo.com 22400319475328460010864 22400319475328460010864 No Bachelor of Primary Education, Yazd, Iran. 4Secretary of Yazd education Nooshin Yoshany nooshin.yoshany@yahoo.com 22400319475328460010865 22400319475328460010865 No Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science Marjane Ghasemine Zhad ghsemzadeh@YAHOO.COM 22400319475328460010866 22400319475328460010866 No School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science