Anyone who does not hold a relevant Certificate of
Competence can only use pesticides if they are
• Over 15,000 people have qualified under the Field Sales and Technical Staff category for crop protection
• Over 3,500 people have registered to be members of the BASIS Professional Register and earn CPD points each year
• Many other people have gained certificates in Seed Treatment, Aquatics, Amenity, Horticulture, Forestry and Nominated Storekeepers
• Some of these qualifications were granted on the basis of the previous experience of staff, all having been scrutinised by BASIS
BASIS offer a wide range of training courses, relevant to the agricultural, amenity, fertiliser and environmental industries. As from 1 January 1987 it became a
requirement under the Control of Pesticides Regulations (1986) that pesticide stores involved in the sale and supply and holding over 200 litres of pesticide must have at least one member of staff with a nominated storekeeper (NSK) Certificate of Competence.
supervised by someone who does
How can I obtain an NSK Certificate of Competence?
You can qualify by attending the two-day BASIS training course and passing the assessment.
In November last year, I attended a
BASIS Nominated Storekeeper Certificate of Competence course. This was held in Shrewsbury and attracted fifteen industry professionals from Shropshire, Herefordshire and Wales who worked for companies that supply, sell and use pesticides. The majority of those attending the course were actively involved in the storage and transporting of pesticides, plus others who work for large organisations that use pesticides in the course of their work.
In attendance were representatives from the following:
Forestry Commission MG Simister & Son Ltd JPCS Ltd Ellesmere Port & Neston Borough Council Wynnstay Group plc
Complete Weed Control Farming Partners Ltd Brown Butlin Group Ltd Fountains plc Frontier Agriculture Ltd Agrovista UK Ltd
I asked a number of the attendees why they had come on the course. In the main it was to comply with their company or organisational policy, with others wanting to update their certificates and gain much needed CPD points. Andrew Spencer, a franchisee of Complete Weed Control, was attending because it his company’s policy and because he wanted to improve his understanding of the laws regarding the transportation and storage of pesticides. Andrew supplies and services many companies and authorities in the West Wales Region. Most of his work concerns the treatment of weeds along highways, in schools, for local authority and caravan sites. Andrew Britland, a storekeeper who has worked for Hodges & Moss for eighteen
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