Latest recruit to the Lantra/Hozelock-Exel initiative to raise sprayer maintenance awareness among operators is Newlands Training.
A leading force in the South-West, Newlands Training delivers land-based operator courses to the forestry, arboriculture, conservation, agriculture and local authority sectors.
CP3 Evolution Diaphragm Sprayer
"The CP3 Knapsack Sprayer is a good all-round sprayer for overall and spot treatment" - Ed Dorey, Trainer/Assessor, Newlands Training
Lesley Simpson founded Newlands Training nearly 40 years ago to deliver rural skills to serve the local and regional agriculture sector and has seen the scope of demand spread widely since then.
“We trained mostly agricultural operators in the early days,” she says. “Now, it’s mainly landscape and forestry contractors.”
Newlands Training provision covers pesticide application using knapsack sprayers, hand-held and quad bike operation using lances and mini boom sprayers.
Lesley’s team of 12 trainers deliver courses for clients throughout Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and, recently, Hampshire.
“We run both Lantra and City & Guilds NPTC pesticide qualifications," Lesley continues, “with assessors covering the range of age groups as required.
Competition is strict,” she notes, “with a college and at least two other training providers nearby.”
She numbers golf clubs and independent schools in the region among her clients – “we’ve worked with a major educational establishment for 20 years,” Lesley states, “training what is a large team of grounds professionals, including their greenkeepers, in safe use of pesticides application and hand power tools such as chainsaws, brushers and pole pruners".
“The Cooper Pegler Evolution professional knapsack kindly provided through the Lantra/Hozelock-Exel initiative is already proving a popular and useful addition to our course aids by helping trainees better understand how knapsacks function and how best to maintain them to prolong their lifetime.”
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