Safety 'n Action Safety 'n Action AXIOM TRAINING

Hazardous Substances in Agriculture

Key Information

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)

Maximum Attendees: 12

Training available nationwide at one of our centres, or your own workplace

Price (excl GST)

$4270 Company Booking

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Gain the essential skills to safely handle, store, and apply hazardous substances in agriculture while meeting New Zealand’s regulatory requirements.

Agricultural work often involves handling hazardous substances, such as agrichemicals, which can pose serious risks to human health, the environment, and livestock if not managed correctly.

This course equips agrichemical users with the skills and knowledge to handle, apply, and store hazardous substances safely while complying with New Zealand’s regulatory requirements. It is designed for those managing a single site or supervising others in agricultural settings. Successful completion qualifies participants to handle highly toxic agrichemicals.

Students need to have 3 months of work experience in the industry prior to doing the course.

Please bring along your ID - We need to verify the identity of students in attendance, please bring ID with you on the day of training.

Key Learning Outcomes:

  1. Safely and responsibly apply agrichemicals with minimal risk to human, environmental, and animal health

  2. Understand regulatory and market requirements for agrichemical use
  3. Learn your legal obligations under New Zealand legislation regarding the use of agrichemicals

Entry Criteria:

  1. All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course. 

NZQA Unit Standards Included

  • Unit Standards - HSIA

    Unit

    Level

    Credit

    Description

    21563

     

    3

    8

    Describe hazard classification systems, and the safe and responsible use of agrichemicals

    27215

    2

    5

    Prepare to apply and apply agrichemicals using hand held equipment