03 August 2020
BUSINESS | PPC100 August 2020 Taking on your first employee is a landmark moment for any pest management business. It can bring in changes to procedures, policies and management style. We asked Which? Trusted Traders to find us some
Business Feature | PPC100 August 2020 In this article, Paul Bates, Managing Director at Cleankill Pest Control, talks about motivating and inspiring staff using incentives, beyond giving a simple paycheck. You
YOUR ASSOCIATION | PPC100 August 2020 BPCA’s Communications Officer Kat Shaw spoke to Gabrielle Hogg, trainee pest technician with Pest Solutions. One of the industry’s brilliant up-and-comers, we talk about her mentoring
YOUR ASSOCIATION | PPC100 August 2020 We’ve put together this useful organisation chart so you can understand how BPCA works. You may even spot an area of the Association you’d like to volunteer your time in. SPEED VIE
YOUR ASSOCIATION | PPC100 August 2020 Over time, BPCA Forums have evolved from small member meetings in an evening, to regularly seeing audiences of over 80, exhibitor tables, a full morning of speakers and a calendar of at leas
ON ASSIGNMENT | PPC100 August 2020 In May this year, BPCA released the first in a series of new downloadable CPD assignments, giving pest controllers the opportunity to research and write about a topic in order to earn valuable CPD points
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29 July 2020
The four UK governments and environment agencies are working together on a project to develop a UK-wide electronic waste tracking service to capture information on the movement of non-hazardous, hazardous and international shipments of green list w
24 July 2020
A new permanent website for the International Conference on Urban Pests (ICUP) has been unveiled and includes free access to all previous ICUP papers and posters. The new site has been unveiled by the Executive Committee of ICU
Free DNA testing for rodenticide resistance in rats and mice has resumed with the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use. Chairman Dr Alan Buckle calls for tail samples of freshly killed rats and mice from pest controllers, farmers and
23 July 2020
The announcement in March that the country would lock down to slow the spread of Covid-19 meant that BPCA’s most popular residential training course was postponed until further notice. Following the lifting of these Covid-19 re
21 July 2020
BPCA member Pelsis have launched a new remote rodent monitoring system for pest control professionals. The TrapMe remote rodent monitoring system combines a trap with built in remote monitoring functionality and, accordin
16 July 2020
BPCA has issued a new downloadable assignment on the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, to help pest professionals keep up with their continuing professional development (CPD). The CPD assignments are designed for those working in
15 July 2020
Learning how blogging and social media can allow you to promote your business, share news stories and engage with other pest controllers. In this video, Scott discusses how to create an integrated social media strategy and privacy laws that yo
09 July 2020
A new Treatment Report template, for BPCA members and their employees to use, has been uploaded to the Member Documents Area and the BPCA PrintShop (login required). Available to BPCA members only, the new template wa
BPCA has had reports of auditors asking pest professionals for Pa1 Pa6 pesticide training certificates. The use of insecticides for public health pests does not require the user to have Pa1 Pa6 pesticide training and therefore a NRoSO ce
08 July 2020
Following the theft of highly toxic aluminium phosphide-based chemicals from a van in Manchester, BPCA urges technicians to be careful about leaving pesticides unattended in vehicles. Police have launched a major investigation
06 July 2020
A new case of Bubonic plague was confirmed in China this week (6 July 2020) and, given everything that's happening across the globe with Covid-19, people are understandably worried. However, modern medicine is quite the marvel and it's impor
BPCA member PelGar will cease all pest control training and R&D activity at Church Farm training center in November this year. PelGar has made the decision to move all R&D operations in-house and cease physical training cour
BUSINESS | PPC100 August 2020 You would have to be living in a cave for the last four months not to know that we are living in strange times. Chris Cagienard, director and field biologist for BPCA member company Pest Solutions, share
01 July 2020
After a challenging year for pest management, BPCA is pleased to announce registration for PestEx 2021 is now open. With the London ExCeL confirming that they intend to be running full scale within the next few months, we can say wi
30 June 2020
Today, BPCA has written to Dave Slater, the Director for wildlife licensing at Natural England regarding the future of individual licences for gull control. The letter expresses our disappointment at the current state of licen
