Pesticide Applicator Recertification

Pesticide Applicator Certificates are issued for up to 5 years, prior to expiration you need to either complete the required number of Continuing Education Units (CEU) to recertify or rewrite the exam. If you choose to complete your CEU's to recertify, we have workshops available that will keep you up-to-date with the newest ideas and technology as well as build your professional network.  

There are 10 concept areas for training: Application Technology, Emergency Response, Environment, General Information, Human Health, Labeling, Pesticide Safety, Pest Management, Professionalism and Regulations.

Dates: 

Workshop #1 AM: February 19, 2025

Workshop #2 PM: February 19, 2025

Workshop #3 AM: February 20, 2025

Workshop #4 PM: February 20, 2025

Workshop #1  | February 19, 2025 | 9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

Pest Management 

• Cost: $99 +GST
• Instructor: Dr Shabeg S Briar PhD PAg
• Schedule: 
  • CEU 1 Pest Management - Ag, Land, Industrial, Forestry: Herbicide-resistant weeds and management options using conventional methods and emerging technologies
  • Break
  • CEU 1 Pest Management - Ag, Land: Biological control of insect pests using entomopathogenic nematodes: Potential for exploration and use in the Prairies

Workshop #2  | February 19, 2025 | 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Health & Safety - Application Technology 

• Cost: $149 +GST
• Instructor: Darren Reddekopp, Olds College
• Schedule: 
  • CEU 1 - Application Technology - All Classes: You're done for the day – What to do with your rinsate? You're done your applications – now what? We will discuss where rinsate is generated, how to prevent and manage rinsate accumulation, and what to do with you rinsate when you are done cleaning your rig. We will also discuss cleaning techniques for your sprayer and new methods for handling and disposing of rinsate.
  • Break
  • CEU 1 Health and Safety - All Classes: The person most at risk is you. A look at what the minimum requirements are for protective equipment include, how to determine what equipment to use and a look at some of the new equipment that can help protect yourself.
  • Break
  • CEU 1 Application Technology - All Classes: Review tips on nozzles. Tips on how to select the right nozzle, how to prevent pesticide drift and a look at some of the new nozzles and technology that are being used to produce precision applications.

Workshop #3  | February 20, 2025 | 9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Health & Safety - Environment

• Cost: $99 +GST
• Instructor: Dr. Ken Fry, PhD
• Schedule:
  • CEU 1 Human Health & Pesticide Safety: Toxicity of pesticides to humans. Dr.Fry will lead you into a discussion of critical thinking around pesticide use and toxicity to humans. Discussion will include exposure, toxicity symptoms of various pesticide groups.
  • Break
  • CEU 1 ENVIRONMENT: KEN FRY PhD. Pollinators and Pesticides: Plants and their characteristics that benefit pollinators and how pesticides affect pollinators.
    This session will examine what pollinators are, which insects serve as pollinators and what they are looking for in a pollen source. Plant characteristics will be described that best suit pollinators so plant selection decisions can best support pollinators. The impacts of pesticides on pollinators will also be described.

Workshop #4  | February 20, 2025 | 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Regulations and Human Health & Safety 

• Cost: $149 +GST
• Instructor: ANDREA SAWATZKY, Health Canada
• Schedule:
  • CEU 1 Regulations - Advertising: This lecture will explain why Health Canada regulates advertising of pesticides, and the risks associated with misleading advertising.
  • Break
  • CEU 1 Regulations - Overview of Spray Drift Risk Assessment: This lecture will provide information on how the PMRA mitigates spray drift (i.e., buffer zones), how buffer zones are established (e.g., risk assessment, spray drift determination), site-specific buffer zone modification (buffer zone calculator).
  • Break
  • CEU 1 Human Health & Safety - Aging, risk, and pesticides: This lecture session will talk about risk, the implications of aging and risk and how risks are communicated.

You are required to complete 15 Continuing Education Credits (CEU) approved for the class of certificate you hold, in the required concept areas below. A maximum of 10 CEU can be obtained in any one year. Remember to plan ahead. You must also complete and submit a recertification form and the set fee. 

The required minimum concept areas must be obtained includes:

• 2 Credits: Regulations (new regulations, regulatory concerns, etc)
• 2 Credits: Health & Pesticide Safety (safe application, storage, disposal of pesticides - practices to ensure personal, bystander, animal health, etc)
• 1 Credit: Environment (environmental issues, pesticide fate, runoff, movement, leaching, etc)
• 2 Credits: Pest Management (pest description, pesticide characteristics, Integrated Pest Management, etc)
• 2 Credits: in Application Technology (calibration clinics, drift modeling, new equipment demonstrations, etc)

Recertification Credit Amount Exceptions:

Continuing education credits must be approved for 'all classes' of applicator certificate or specific to the certificate applicator category held.

Complete the required lesson and return with completed forms and fees - Special Certificate Grading for lesson and Re-certification form.

You must obtain a minimum grade of 80% on your lesson in order to qualify for recertification.