City & Guilds and the National Register of Sprayer Operators (NRoSO) board are ensuring members can continue their essential training and gain points by moving to a new annual online training course. The move follows the cancellation of all face-to-face events due to Covid.
The course content, supplied by the same team as the annual training event, will be similar to the face-to-face events. Operators can choose to take an arable or fruit version of the course, which both provide eight NRoSO/eight Basis points.
“Many operators rely on the NRoSO annual training event to gain their required continuous professional development (CPD) points,” says Robert Lockhart, chairman of the NRoSO board.
“Regardless of the Covid crisis, farming continues and operators still need to keep up to date with industry changes as well as comply with crop assurance requirements. While we acknowledge online learning will not suit all operators, we have worked hard to make the course as easily accessible as possible for the vast majority of people.
Available now until June 30, 2021, NRoSO members can sign up at any time in this period. It costs £30 and is expected to take about two hours. Operators can take a break and return to the course at any time, but have until August 31, 2021, to complete it.
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