Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 4 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Article 13 - PESTICIDES
Section 4-13-38 - Training of registered pest control technicians in ornamental pest control, turf pest control and interior landscape pest control
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 4-13-38
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) All applicants for pest control technician registration in ornamental pest control, turf pest control or interior landscape pest control shall have completed a minimum of 40 hours of verifiable training, 30 hours of which must consist of supervised application of pesticides for the control of ornamental pests, turf pests or interior landscape pests as appropriate, and 10 hours of which must be classroom instruction.
(b) Classroom instruction shall include the following:
(1) The proper use and maintenance of
equipment, including calibration.
(2) the hazards that may be involved in
applying the pesticides, including:
(A) The
effect of drift of the pesticides on adjacent and nearby property and on
nontarget organisms, and methods for preventing drift;
(B) the proper weather conditions for the
application of pesticides and the precautions to be taken;
(C) procedures for preventing pesticide
contamination of groundwater, wells and cisterns, surface water, soil, or the
air within a structure;
(D) the
effect of the pesticides on humans, plants or animals in the area, including
the possibility of damage to plants or animals or the possibility of
undesirable or illegal residues resulting on them;
(E) the effect of the application of
pesticides on wildlife in the area, including aquatic life;
(F) the possibility of contamination of water
or injury to persons, pets or desirable vegetation;
(G) hazards to the applicator resulting from
mixing, loading and applying pesticides;
(H) poisoning prevention, symptoms and first
aid for pesticide poisoning;
(I)
label review and basic information about each pesticide used, including common
names of the pesticides, where and how each pesticide may be applied, and the
kinds of pests controlled;
(J)
basic information about prevention and cleanup of spills; and
(K) basic information about beneficial
insects and the use of non-chemical means to control ornamental pests, turf
pests and interior landscape pests;
(3) calculating the concentration of
pesticides to be used and the quantities of diluted pesticide necessary to
complete a particular treatment.
(4) identification of common pests to be
controlled and damages caused by such pests, as listed below, and the basic
characteristics and habits of these pests.
(A) For registered pest control technicians
in the field of ornamental pest control, common pests shall include but not be
limited to: bagworms, cankerworms, elm leaf beetles, aphids, spider mites,
galls and gall-producing insects and diseases, flatheaded and roundheaded wood
boring beetles, scale insects, cedar-apple rust, anthracnose and powdery
mildew.
(B) For registered pest
control technicians in the field of turf pest control, common pests shall
include but not be limited to: sod webworms, chinch bugs, white grubs, sowbugs,
broadleaf weeds such as dandelion, chickweed, and henbit, grasses such as
crabgrass, foxtail and annual bluegrass, Helminthosporium leaf spot, Pythium
and Fusarium blights, moles and gophers.
(C) For registered pest control technicians
in the field of interior landscape control, common pests shall include but not
be limited to: whiteflies, mealybugs, scale insects, spider mites, aphids,
fungus gnats, snails and slugs, ants, sowbugs, thrips, damping-off, botrytis
blight and powdery mildew;
(5) protective clothing and equipment,
including the use and maintenance of rubber gloves and boots, rainsuits and
respirators.
(6) general
precautions to be followed in the storage and disposal of pesticide containers
and rinsate, as well as the cleaning and decontamination of equipment.
(7) applicable state and federal
pesticide laws and regulations germane to the work of a technician, including
following label directions, direct supervision and information required on
statements of services.
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