Horticulture

City & Guilds Award in The Safe Application of Pesticides Using Pedestrian Hand Held Equipment (QCF) (PA6)

Study Mode

Part Time

Start Date, Location

Jun 2025, Lackham
Jun 2025, Lackham

Duration

1 day

Cost

£300.00

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Course Overview

If you have passed the Level 2 Principles of Safe Handling and Application of Pesticides (PA1) and use a knapsack sprayer to apply the pesticide, this is the follow-on course for you.

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After this course you will:

Know the legislative and safety regulations relating to applicator use
Be able to assess the environmental factors relating to mixing and application
Be able to read and interpret product information
Be able to prepare and calibrate a hand held pedestrian applicator
Be able to operate the application equipment
Know how to carry out post-operational procedures
You must have completed and passed the Level 2 Principles of Safe Handling and Apllicaiton of Pesticides (PA1).
The assessment for these courses is conducted independently by a separate NPTC assessor. Assessments are on a separate day following the training, at designated time slots and are typically within a week of the training being completed; this is dependent on assessor availability.
If you are an employer with one of more candidates to enrol on this course please contact 0845 345 2235 Option 1 or BusinessDevelopment@Wiltshire.ac.uk with any queries.

This course is a full day, 9am-5pm, held at our Lackham campus on the following dates:
09/12/2024
02/06/2025
23/06/2025

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