Spraying tickets advise please

[mattyboy]

did mine earlier this year, they allow a calculator and its a piece of piss!

[woody paul]

Health and safety are not interested, unless an accident occurs. Environment agency said its not their department, and as for insurance, they are saying its not a requirement!

 

Very intresting what you have said, can't make sense with law about Sprays and Eco plugs went to Agri store and saw eco plug for sale and asked about price they told me the price and how to use and that I could use them, I then said it would be work related and they said I would need a ticket to buy.

[Pumpy]

I found this document useful....

 

CONSENTS GIVEN UNDER THE CONTROL OF PESTICIDES REGULATIONS 1986

 

3. No person in the course of his business or employment shall use a pesticide, or give an instruction to others on the use of a pesticide, unless that person-

 

(a) has received adequate instruction, training and guidance in the safe, efficient and humane use of pesticides, and

 

(b) is competent for the duties for which that person is called upon to perform.

 

7. No person in the course of a commercial service shall use a pesticide approved for agricultural use unless that person:

 

(a) has obtained a certificate of competence recognised by the Ministers; or

 

(b) uses that pesticide under the direct and personal supervision of a person who holds such a certificate; or

 

© uses it in accordance with an approval, if any, for one or more of the following uses:

 

(i) home garden (amateur gardening)

(ii) animal husbandry

(iii) food storage practice

(iv) vertebrate control (including rodenticides and repellents)

(v) domestic use

(vi) wood preservation

(vii) as a surface biocide

(viii) public hygiene or prevention of public nuisance

(ix) other industrial biocides

(x) as an anti-fouling product

(xi) 'other' (as may be defined by the Ministers)

 

8. No person who was born later than 31 December 1964 shall use a pesticide approved for agricultural use, unless that person:

 

(a) has obtained a certificate of competence recognised by the Ministers; or

 

(b) uses that pesticide under the direct and personal supervision of a person who holds such a certificate; or

 

© uses it in accordance with an approval, if any, for one of the uses specified under paragraph 7(1)© above.

 

all of which appears to say you need a certificate of competence if you're charging for the work/providing a service.

 

If you are doing it as part of your business (but not providing a service) you need to have sufficient "instruction, training and guidance"

 

unless you are doing one of the approved uses in the above list, I think?

[Pumpy]

reading further now the EU legislation is coming in....

 

Guidance for those affected by the Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012 New legislation on the use of pesticides

 

regarding professional weedkiller products it seems everyone born after 1964 needs a cert of competence, or be directly supervised by a cert holder to use them regardless of circumstance, people born before Dec 1964 have the exemption until 26 November 2015, when everyone who purchases a professional product must ensure that the intended end user holds a certificate.

 

the link to the list explaining who's supposed to be policing all this leads to a HSE login page, so I presume we're not supposed to know who to report offenders to yet, additionally since "The distributor or seller of the products is not required to check the purchaser or intended user holds the appropriate certificate..." will it make the slightest bit of difference?