Pest Safety & Management

Date: August 10, 2022 - August 17, 2022

Times: 08:30 AM - 04:00 PM

Day(s): Wednesday

Location: NWW 103 (STX) & TED 213 (STT)

Details:

2022 Pesticide Safety and Pest Management Trainings 

Wednesday, August 10 – CORE Pesticide Safety and Best Practices; full-day, 8:30 - 4:00 pm

Wednesday, August 17 –  Ways to Manage Pests – Integrated Pest Management; half-day, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm

CORE is an all-day training and is particularly suited for pest control operators and farmers. Topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Pesticide laws, sections, and violations
• Reading & understanding product labels
• Risks, hazards, and first aid associated with pesticides
• Calibrating equipment, computing size of the area to be treated, and amount of product needed
• Effects of pesticides on people, the environment, non-target organisms
• Ways pesticides can enter the body

Format: Video Conference 

Albert A. Sheen Campus, St. Croix: NWW 103 (West of the Great Hall, across from the outdoor restrooms) 

Orville E. Kean Campus, St. Thomas: TED-213 (located on the 2nd Floor of the Teacher's Education Building), upper STT Campus, near the library.  The TED building is located after the Science & Math building. Parking is available on the upper campus and behind the library.  If further directions are needed call (340) 693-1466 or Shawn at (340) 693-1373.  

Questions? Send an email to amy.dreves@uvi.edu or call (340) 692-4052. 

This training is FREE, however, space is limited, so pre-register today!   

Link(s): To pre-register for this course, please click this link.