Certificate Classes
Overview:
Pesticide application certification is divided into classes.
Each class is for a specific type of application as well as what the pesticides is used to control. Details are outlined below. For more home study course information, please visit our Home Study page.
All training starts with a core, then has specific lessons for each class. Home study training materials are grouped by these classes. Or, if you are adding a classification, you just purchase the particular lessons.
Further information:
- You must be a certified structural pesticide applicator for 2 years before you can take the fumigation classification.
- The stored agricultural product fumigation classification is a subset of the fumigation classification. The structural certification isn’t required. However, fumigation is limited to agricultural product pests in grain bins, elevators, rail cars and trucks.
- Special: Soil Fumigation only authorizes the use of fumigant vapours (eg. chloropicrin) into agricultural soils. Applicants must hold an Agriculture certificate that was issued a minimum of 2 years prior to applying for this certificate.
- The industrial classification includes herbicide applications to parking lots and landscaped areas surrounding industrial facilities to control designated noxious and restricted weeds.
- The landscape class includes herbicide application to parking lots and roads for control of designated noxious or restricted weeds within urban areas, but doesn’t include brush control.
For more home study course information, please visit our Home Study page.
| Aerial |
| This class includes pesticide application by aircraft. |
| Agricultural |
| This class includes ground application of pesticides on livestock and agricultural crops. |
| Aquatic Vegetation |
| Ground application of pesticides to control aquatic weeds in water bodies - still or flowing water, or areas exposed during periods of low water. |
| Biting Fly (mosquito) |
| This class includes ground application of insecticides to control mosquito or biting fly larvae or adults. |
| Forestry |
| Includes ground application of pesticides in forest management operations or silviculture, forest seed orchards, outdoor nurseries and plantations. |
| Fumigation |
| Using fumigants in enclosed structures or under vapour proof barriers. Includes use in grain bins & elevators, buildings, rail cars, trucks and closed vaults. |
| Greenhouse |
| Pesticide use in greenhouses & mushroom houses in storage, display or production of ag crops (vegetables, ornamentals, mushrooms, tree seedlings). |
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Industrial |
| Ground application to control weeds & brush on industrial areas (roadsides, power & pipelines, rights of way, easements, railways, well sites and equipment yards). Includes herbicide applications to parking lots, landscaped areas surrounding industrial facilities. |
| Landscape |
| Ground application of pesticide (not fumigants) to maintain ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers & turf on outdoor residential, commercial & public land. Includes herbicide application to parking lots and roads within urban areas, but not for brush control. |
| Stored Agricultural Product Fumigation |
| Subset of fumigation, authorizes fumigant use to control stored agricultural product pests in grain bins, elevators, rail cars and trucks. |
| Structural |
| Using pesticides to prevent or control pests that affect a structure or its inhabitants. |
| Special: Exterior Rodent Control |
| Use or application of pesticides to control of rodents in outdoor settings including pastures, turf, roadsides, in-crop and non-cropland areas. |
| Special: Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates |
| Includes purposely applied pesticides to waters to eliminate fish species in storm water ponds or any open body of water for fishery management. |
| Special: Interior Plantscapes |
| Includes using or applying pesticides on plants inside buildings. This includes atriums, plant groupings, and individual plant applications. |
| Special: Roots in Pipes |
| Includes using or applying pesticides to control tree roots in residential and commercial sewer pipes. |
| Special: Seed Protectant |
| Using or applying a pesticide registered for seed protection to treat seeds from diseases and insects during or shortly after the seed germinates. |