Pesticide Safety Education Program

Accessibility  

• PERC’s resource for a bilingual dictionary of terms for translating resources

Licensing & Certification 

• Certification Homepage

• Certification Flowchart

• Registered Pesticide Applicator Checklist

• Registered Applicator Trainer Manual

• Renewal Process

• Recertification Seminar

• Business Licensing Homepage

• Pesticide Applicators Business License application 

• Purchase Study Manuals Online

Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Resources

• Pesticide Application Certification Details & FAQs

• Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment Requirements for Commercial Applicators - New! 

• Guidance for Lawn Caution Marker Posting and Application Notification at Multi-Unit Residential Properties

• Compliance Assistance Library

• Integrated Pest Management Homepage

• Clean Sweep 

• Endangered Species      

• Drift Management Plan Template

• Ready To Use Rodenticides

• Risk/Benefit Information for Pesticide Applications

• Managed Pollinator Protection Plan

• Customers Information. Record keeping form for commercial applicators

Organizations & Alliances 

• Environmental Protection Agency EPA

• United States Department of Agriculture USDA

• Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development MDARD

• American Crop Protection Association

• American Farm Bureau

• Council for Ag Science and Technology CAST

• Consumers Union

• Environmental Working Group

• Cornell University's Pesticide Management Education Program

Related MSU Programs 

• Michigan State University Extension MSUE

• North Central Integrated Pest Management Center NCIPMC

 Worker Protection 

• EPA's Worker Protection

General Pesticide Information 

• Washington State Pest Management Resource Service

• National Pesticide Information Center. NPIC

• EXTOXNET Extension Toxicology Network. Everything you need to know about pesticides including FAQ sheets, pesticide profiles, fact sheets, tox issues.

• Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database Resistance cases from 1914 to the present.

Integrated Pest Management 

• MSU Extension IPM: IPM articles, MSU plant and pest diagnostics, IPM academy online courses, and other IPM resources.

• MDARD IPM Website

• Iowa State IPM

Newsletters 

• WSU Urban IPM and Pesticide Safety Education Washington State University

• MSU Extension Agriculture

People 

• State Regulatory Agencies (Dept. of Agriculture)

• American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators. Membership info, jobs, position papers, and state pesticide education web pages.