Pesticide certification and training categories
Last updated on August 7, 2024If you apply or dispense pesticides, you need certification and training.
For every category where you apply and dispense pesticides, you must pass a certification exam.
Choose the category that applies to you. There are separate study materials and exams for each category.
Arrange an exam
Contact Service BC to arrange writing certification exams:
- Phone: 1-866-205-2102
- Email PesticideAdmin@gov.bc.ca for guidance
Contact information
For questions about certificate categories:
- Email ipmpbc@gov.bc.ca
- Or leave a message at: 250-387-9537
Apply pesticides from helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft to manage:
- Mosquitoes
- Vegetation along rights-of-way
- Pests associated with agricultural or forestry production
Manage pests of agricultural production. Categories are available for:
- Field crop and orchard production
- Greenhouse production
- Rodent management
These categories are for custom applicators, private growers or farm workers.
Apply pesticides under the supervision of a certified pesticide applicator.
Assist in the safe transport and security of pesticides at worksites.
Manage pests of forestry production, including weed control on forest rangeland. Categories are available for:
- General forestry management
- Non-broadcast applications
- Seed cone orchards
- Seedling nurseries
Manage pests by using fumigants. Categories are available for:
- Treating ships, structures and containers
- The use of carbon dioxide to treat grain or flour
A category for treating soil is under development.
Manage weeds on:
- Industrial land
- Rights-of-way
- Roadsides, power lines, railways and pipelines
- Oilfield sites
- Wells and battery
- Invasive plants and noxious weeds on private or public land
This category is for commercial use. Manage pests of landscaped areas:
- Gardens
- Ornamental plants
- Lawns and turf
Manage mosquitoes and biting flies. Categories are available for:
- General mosquito and biting fly management
- Aerial application of granular bacterial pesticides
- Ground application of bacterial pesticides and growth regulators
Sell pesticides in licensed retail sales outlets.
Separate dispenser categories are available for selling domestic and commercial class pesticides.
This category is for private, non-commercial use only. Apply pesticides on private landscapes:
- Lawns
- Flower beds
- Ornamental trees and plants
Manage pests in, near or on a structure.
A separate category is available for wood preservation.