If you already work in the sports turf or horticultural industry, you would have already come across the term Pesticide and be familiar with the use of such products to be used as management tools to control a wide range of weeds and pests etc to protect what you are trying to grow or develop.
Anyone who uses a Pesticide need to hold a Certificate of Competence and there are numerous competence levels to obtain relevant to the type of application equipment that the operator is likely to use in their work.
There was an excemption clause called The Grandfather Clause that permitted operaters born before 31 December 1964 not to have a licence to apply a pesticide. That clause is now being phased out meaning that every worker needs to obtain accreditation from The NPTC - The National Proficiency Tests Committee.
All pesticide users must be adequately trained, no matter what their age and qualifications. The law says that contractors who apply agricultural pesticides commercially, and all operators born after 31 December 1964, are required to have a certificate of competence. The right to apply pesticides without an operator’s certificate of competence, because the operator was born before 31 December 1964, is known as ‘grandfather rights’. A trained operator can therefore be someone who does not have a certificate of competence but who has attended some training courses and has “grandfather rights”.
Assurance schemes often require all spray operators to have undergone training regardless of whether or not they qualify for ‘grandfather rights’.
The Weed Free Team possess not only a wealth of technical, commercial and practical knowledge of the use of pesticides but also formal Further Education 7307 teacher training qualifications to make our training courses fun, practical, pleasant but most of all successful for all our candidates.
They can come to you, prefer to train in minimum numbers of four to six candidates or we can arrange a suitable local venue for you.
Should you have a requirement for Pesticide Training, please fill in the web site enquiry form.
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