About Us

Spanish pesticide-training program is a multi-county program for South and Central Florida. The target clientele are Hispanic agriculture workers and Hispanic pesticide applicators working in farms, nurseries and the landscape industry seeking to increase knowledge in pesticide safety. The program began in December 2000 with a primary goal to increase pesticide safety by delivering worker protection standards to the Hispanic farmworker community but it has expanded to provide pesticide license certification trainings as well.
Purpose: The purpose of the Spanish pesticide-training program is to provide a learning opportunity to Hispanic individuals seeking to increase knowledge, improve testing skills and prepare for pesticide license certification in their own native language.

Scope: The Spanish pesticide training classes are designed to increase pesticide knowledge, safety and encourage license certification.

Training: At present, we are please to offer the following programs in Spanish:

1. Worker Protection Standard for Worker and Handler.
2. Train the Trainer.
3. Private applicator.
4. General Standards (Core).
5. Ornamental and Turf and Landscaping for Limited Certification.
6. Commercial landscape maintenance.
7. Pest control technician training.