The winter is ideally suited to visit knowledge meetings for the extension of the spraying licence. The coronavirus ensures that many physical meetings cannot take place. How do training providers solve this? While one does everything digitally, another struggles with that possibility.
The validity period of a certificate of professional competence – better known as the spraying license – is 5 years. With this deadline in mind, additional demand for knowledge meetings is expected from course providers. In combination with the backlog due to the corona virus, this creates extra pressure.
Coulance for end date
Bureau Erkenningen applies a leniency scheme for all licenses for carrying out crop protection, mole/water rat and rodent control. Holders of the certificates of competence, with an end date from March 16, 2020 to April 30, 2021, will have until May 1, 2021 to attend sufficient meetings. If enough meetings have been attended, the license will be automatically renewed, with effect from the original end date. The implementation of the meetings is left to the training organisations.
AOCs and other training providers paint a mixed picture of the current situation. There is great interest in extension, but where one person indicates that it can meet the current demand well, the other is looking for opportunities to provide additional training. Providers of digital courses report additional interest and expect this to only increase in the coming period.
Locations unsuitable
Fewer physical meetings are currently being organized. Due to the corona measures, many of the usual locations are not suitable and the group size is also limited. Often it concerns a maximum of 15 participants.
The alternative is an online participation. There are various providers of webinars. a group of up to 15 participants can attend a meeting here. The duration of such training is about 2 hours. This setup makes it possible to provide multiple training sessions per day. An alternative is to follow a completely digital course. This is concluded with a questionnaire. The number of participants is unlimited in this setup, but no exchange of knowledge and experience between colleagues is possible.
Disconnect rodent control
For those in possession of a KBA license (rodent control), it may be useful to separate this from the current license for crop protection. When only the CBA note expires, the crop protection license also expires. From 2022, the CTGB will change the authorization of medicines based on anticoagulants (blood thinners). As a result, fewer resources become available to holders of the KBA license.
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