CFS432 Vertebrate Pesticide Control Methods

Course code

CFS432
Locations and dates
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Credits

10

If you carry out conservation fieldwork, this is the best way to gain the skills to deliver the Department of Conservation (DOC) best practices in vertebrate pesticide control methods in your region.

This course will also take you through all the pre-requisite requirements for compliance certification for the use of specific certified substances under the HSNO and AVCM acts.

On completion, you will be capable of the following and be able to undertake pest control and document the results in a field situation.

Describe task specifications for the use of pesticides
Describe personal protective equipment (PPE), safety data sheets and safe handling sheets for the use of pesticides
Demonstrate competency for compliance certification requirements
Demonstrate the technical specification for selected control methods in a field situation
Describe other pesticides

Please note: This course does not cover pest control design for a site or operational planning of selected control methods.

Please take note of the workshop dates as they differ from the course start date. Also, online enrolments for our courses close on the course start date.

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Full course content

Demonstrate competency for compliance certification requirements:

Hazard classifications
Properties and adverse effects
Complying with legal controls
Precautions and emergency procedures

Demonstrate the technical specification for selected control methods in a field situation:

Establishing permanent and temporary transect lines
1080 cereal baits in possum bait stations
Feratox potassium cyanide strikers for possums
Cholecalciferol D3 in bait bags for rats

Describe other pesticides:

PestOff rat bait 50D
Pindone and diphacinone possum and rat pellets
PestOff rodent pellets
Cholecalciferol DeCal possum bait and other blocks and hard pastes

Conservation Training Scheme

Our conservation short courses are part of the Conservation Field Skills Training Scheme.

This Training Scheme is 20 credits. If you complete all the credits you will receive a Training Scheme award.

The Conservation Field Skills Training Scheme includes the compulsory course Risk Assessment worth 5 credits.

The remaining 15 credits can be made up of the short courses that best fit with your work.

Only one can be at level 3.

Course	Level	Credits
Conservation First Aid	3	5
Predator Trapping Methods	3	8
Introduction to NZ Conservation	4	5
Plant Identification	4	5
20x20 Plots and Reconnaissance	4	10
Foliar Browse Index	4	5
Five Minute Bird Count	4	5
Weed Management (Principles and Best Practice)	4	5
Vertebrate Pesticide Control Methods	4	10