Description
Required to obtain a category license General Standards Core exam covers basic pesticide application safety including: pesticide law, transporting, mixing, loading, storing and disposing of pesticides, personal protective equipment, equipment calibration, pesticides in the environment, understanding labels, harmful effects, emergency response, and application procedureAgenda
8:00 am Introduction
8:10 am The Law and Pesticide Application
8:30 am Principles of Pesticides and Pest Control
9:00 am Understanding Pesticide Labeling
9:20 am Pesticide Formulations
9:50 am Break
10:00 am Pesticide and the Environment
10:20 am Harmful Effects and Emergency Response
10:40 am Personal Protective Equipment
11:00 am Transportation, Storage and Security, and Disposal of Pesticide Waste.
11:20am Pesticide Application procedures
11:40 am Review and Evaluation
12:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm-3:00pm Testing
Speaker
Luis O. Rodriguez, UF/IFAS Extension Small Farms and Pesticide Education Agent, Polk County.
CEUs
4 Core CEU's (487, 482)
Notes
If you are planning on taking the exam the same day you will need to bring your voucher number. You can get your voucher number and pay the exam fee accessing the following link: https://pesticideexam.ifas.ufl.edu/
Select: Apply for examination > Agriculture/RUP License
Chapter 487 > Exam SignUp (Obtain a New License) > select private, public or commercial > Fallow the instruction
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