Integrated Pest Management

Pesticide Certification Categories

A. For Pesticide Sales

1. Dispenser—Domestic Pesticides: for people who work in pesticide retail sales outlets where pesticides are sold to non-professional, home and garden users or hobby farmers. A person with Dispenser—Domestic Certification can only sell "Domestic" labelled products and up to 100 kg of Commercial labelled pesticides each year. The sale of all other Canadian labelled pesticides requires a person with a Dispenser—Commercial certificate.
   
   
2. Dispenser—Commercial Pesticides: for people who sell commercial pesticides—primarily in sales outlets where pesticides are sold to farmers or other professional, commercial applicators. The pesticides sold would be labelled as Commercial, Agricultural, Industrial or Restricted class products. Note: a person certified in the Dispenser—Commercial category can also sell Domestic labelled pesticides, although the Ministry of Environment recommends people involved in sales of Domestic pesticides obtain the Dispenser—Domestic certification.

B. For Pesticide Application

3. Aerial: to apply pesticides from helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft to manage mosquitoes, vegetation along rights-of-way and pests associated with agricultural or forestry production.
   
   
4. Agriculture—General: to manage pests associated with agricultural production of field, orchard, nursery and greenhouse crops, livestock and poultry. This category is for custom applicators, private growers or farm workers. Landscapers who grow their own ornamentals, need only to be certified in the Landscape—General category described below.
   
   
5. Agriculture—for Strychnine Bait: restricted to managing gophers using strychnine bait.
   
   
6. Forestry—Management (General): to manage weeds, insects and diseases in forestry production, including weed control on forest range land (for pest management on privately owned and public forest land).
   
   
7. Forestry Non-broadcast: restricted to localized application of herbicides for forest management, including hack and squirt, injection, basal bark and stump treatments.
   
   
8. Forestry Seedling Nursery: to manage insect, weed and disease pests of seedling nurseries. Note: the same study books are used for seedling nurseries and for seed cone orchards.
   
   
9. Forest Seed Cone Orchard: to manage insect, weed and disease pests of forest seed cone orchards. Note: the same study books are used for seedling nurseries and for seed cone orchards.
   
   
10. Fumigation—General: to manage pests of structures, stored products (including grain), under tarps or in soil using fumigants that are, or emit, a gas at room temperature (e.g. methyl bromide, chloropicrin, aluminum phosphide, and carbon dioxide). Note: the same study books are used for fumigation—general and for fumigation—grain.
    
    
11. Fumigation—Grain Storage: restricted to the fumigation of grain storage areas using aluminum phosphide or carbon dioxide (includes surface treatment of grain and bins with sprays and rodent control). Note: the same study books are used for fumigation—general and for fumigation—grain.

12. Industrial Vegetation and Noxious Weeds: to manage weeds on industrial land, roads, power lines, railways and pipeline right-of-ways; includes control of weeds designated as noxious on private or public land. Note: there used to be a separate category for noxious weed control, but this has been incorporated into the Industrial Vegetation and Noxious Weed category.
    
    
13. Landscape—General: to manage insects, diseases and weeds of gardens, ornamental plantings and turf (for anyone applying pesticides on public land and for applicators providing pest management services to clients on private land). Note: landscapers who grow their own nursery stock do not need the Agriculture—General certification if they are certified in the Landscape—General Category.
    
    
14. Mosquito and Biting Fly: to manage mosquitoes and biting flies.
    
    
15. Mosquito—Aerial Application of Granular Bacterial Pesticides: to manage mosquitoes by applying granular bacterial pesticides from helicopters.
    
    
16. Mosquito—Ground Application of Bacterial Pesticides and Growth Regulators: to manage mosquitoes using bacterial pesticides and growth regulators applied by ground-based equipment.
    
    
17. Structural General—Integrated Pest Management: to manage pests invading or damaging structures (for anyone managing pests associated with buildings, including all public buildings, or private buildings where the applicator is working on a fee-for-service basis.
    
    
18. Structural Wood Preservation, Including Pole Treatment: to manage wood destroying pests in poles and timbers.
    

Updated: september 2009