• Check mowing heights and keep blades sharp.
• Be vigilant and treat the disease early to prevent severe attacks. Treat with approved fungicides.
• Reduce shade. Pesticides:
Pesticides are chemical substances and certain micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses and mycoplasmas) prepared or used to control pests. Pests include creatures, plants and other organisms that are capable of harming turfgrass. The term ‘pesticide’ covers products such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides rodenticides, soil sterilants and insect repellents amongst others. Pesticides regulated by DEFRA’s executive body, the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), are used in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, food storage practice and domestic gardens. Pesticides regulated by the HSE’s biocides and pesticides unit (BPU) are used as wood preservatives, public hygiene insecticides, surface biocides, rodenticides and anti-fouling products. As with the use of Herbicides there are statutory regulations to comply with when using pesticides to control diseases and insects in the UK. The following Acts and regulations apply:
The Food and Environmental Protection Act 1985:
Part III of the Food and Environmental Act 1985 (FEPA) came into force in September 1985. It aims to protect the health of humans, creatures and plants; safeguard the environment; secure safe, effective and humane methods of controlling pests; and to make pesticide information available to the public. FEPA was followed by the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 (COPR), as amended
and Safety executive has introduced regulations to control the risk to people in the workplace arising from substances hazardous to health, and that includes farms, forests, local authorities areas and so on.
COSHH Regulations (Control of substances hazardous to Health):
by the Control of Pesticides (amended) Regulations 1997 (COP(A)R). Along with consents given by Ministers for the advertisement, sale, supply, storage and use of pesticides, FEPA provides the means of pest control consistent with protecting the safety of people, animals and the environment.
The Control Of Pesticides Regulations 1986 (as amended 1997):
Under the Control of Pesticide Regulations, all pesticides must gain approval before their advertisement, sale, supply, storage or use is permitted in Great Britain. Approval is a legal requirement and it is an offence to use non-approved pesticides or to use approved pesticides in a manner that does not comply with the specific conditions of approval. All approved pesticides are subject to routine review but may be reviewed at any time if any evidence emerges concerning their safety. If necessary an approval can be restricted or revoked entirely.
Health and safety at work Act 1974:
This act places general obligations on the employer to provide training and safety equipment, the employee is obliged to use the safety equipment provided. Under this Act, The Health
Requires employers to prevent or adequately control the exposure of their employees and other persons who may be affected by hazardous substances. In addition, the Regulations require: the maintenance, examination and testing of control measures; the provision of information, instruction and training; emergency planning; and, in some cases, exposure monitoring and health surveillance of employees, and preparing procedures to deal with accidents, incidents and emergencies involving hazardous substances.
The Water Act 1989:
Under this act it is an offence to allow any poisonous, noxious or polluting matter to enter any controlled waters without the consent to discharge issued by the National Rivers Authority. Controlled waters include, rivers, lakes, canals, estuaries, coastal waters and underground waters. Other regulations and acts that need to be observed are, Control of Pollution Act 1974, The Water Act 1991.
Integrated Pest Management: utilises cultural, biological and chemical management techniques to balance the management of the turf. Used in the correct proportions, it will reduce reliance on artificial inputs to enable management of turf disease and pests. It allows for decision making criteria to be applied before chemical control of a pest or disease is taken.
What are you like?
Marillion are a rock band I have followed since 1982. They have a convention weekend every so often. I went in 2001, 2002 and 2005 and it was superb. And Weston-Super-Mare - this year is the twentieth time we have had our ‘Jolly Boys’ outing.
What annoys you the most? Drivers, who (a) don’t use motorway lanes correctly (b) don’t indicate, and (c) don’t acknowledge you when you have given way to them.
Who are you? Stephen Morris - or Minor, which has been my nickname since the age of five! I work as Payroll Manager/Assistant Accountant for a Timber Merchant/Sawmillers and have done so since June 1983. I am also responsible for the cricket ground for Bishop’s Castle Cricket Club in Shropshire.
Status? Single since 2001. I have a daughter Chiara who is eight and a half.
Who’s your hero and why? Ian Botham, enough said.
What is your dream holiday? Spending time in the Lake District or at a Marillion weekend.
What would you change about yourself? Very boring one this, lose a few pounds from my ample frame.
Who wouldn’t you like to be? At the moment, Gordon Brown.
Favourite record and why? Script for a Jesters Tear by Marillion, followed by all their subsequent albums. It’s the album that shaped my musical life way back in 1983. Or anything by Bob Dylan (my father’s influence).
Who would you choose to spend a romantic evening with? Bit stuck on that one at the moment!
If you won the lottery what is the first thing you would do? If it was a big win I’d pay off
mine and all my family’s mortgages, then offer to buy our cricket ground and all the relevant ‘new’ mowers and kit that I could buy.
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument what would you be? A drum!
What’s the best advice you have ever been given? When taking up my job in 1983, “if you work like your father, you’ll do”.
What is your favourite smell? Fish and chips
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Thoughtful, outgoing, sociable.
What talent would you like to have? To be any good with wood like my father and brother who are both carpenters and joiners.
What makes you angry? People who get something for nothing whilst we are all working our socks off to earn a living.
What law/legislation would you like to see introduced? Supermarkets should be forced to sell beer at a similar price to pubs, at the moment they have an extremely unfair advantage over pubs.
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