Indiana Pesticide Applicator Core Exam
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A. Indicate which state agency is responsible for pesticide regulation (including licensing). -
answer✔Office of Indiana State Chemist (OISC)
A. Explain the legal obligations of the pesticide applicator with respect to the product label. -
answer✔a. They are under legal obligation to use as directed on the label.
A. Describe who has to legally be certified to use pesticides in Indiana. - answer✔a. Anyone
applying RUP- Restricted Use Products.
•Private applicators - applicators applying or supervising the application of pesticide to their own
property.
•Commercial Applicators
Private Applicator - answer✔•Private applicators - applicators applying or supervising the
application of pesticide to their own property. (farmers)
Commercial Applicator - answer✔•Apply pesticides to another's property for profit (
exterminators)
•Apply pesticides to school property.
•Apply pesticides for area wide mosquito control.
•Apply pesticides on employers property as part of their job.
•Apply restricted use pesticides as an employee of a state or local government agency.
Registered Technician - answer✔•A non-certified individual that is 18+ years old that has passed
the pesticide core exam and is registered with the OISC.
•Must be supervised by a certified applicator.
State the number of years pesticide applicator certification is good for. - answer✔a. 5 years
A. Discuss TWO options to maintain applicator certification - answer✔•Testing - retaking the
Core and Category Exams
•Accumulating continuing certification hours (CCHs)
•Accrued by attending extension, professional, and industrial programs for which credit has been
approved by the OISC.
Describe where to find reliable information regarding pesticide applicator continuing
certification categories - answer✔a. Indiana State Chemist Website: www.isco.purdue.edu
A. Discuss the purpose of the applicator license - answer✔It serves as a tracking mechanism that
permits OISC-Office of Indiana State Chemist to confirm status of Certified Applicators
State when a certified, licensed supervisor must remain on-site with a non-certified employee. -
answer✔a. At all times during pesticide applications unless the employee is an RT in which case
they must be reachable by phone.
State who has to maintain a for-hire business license? - answer✔Firms engaged in the business
of applying pesticides on the property of another.
A. State how a non-certified employee can become a registered technician. - answer✔a. Passing
the pesticide applicator core exam and their employer applies for a RT credential through OISC.
(18+ years old)
A. List the items that a certified, licensed supervisor must provide a registered technician before
sending them to work off-site. - answer✔a. Remain available via phone for consultation
b. Provide a category-specific site assessment fact sheet (www.isco.purdue.edu. Click pesticide
"category info")
c. Provide the label required PPE- personal protective equipment
d. Provide RT with labels of products being applied
List what activities may be performed by a registered technician - answer✔Any task in which
their certified applicator supervisor is both certified and licensed for.
General Use vs Restricted Use - answer✔General Use- products that when used in accordance to
the label won't cause adverse effects on humans or the environment.
Restricted Use - products that when used in accordance to the label may cause adverse effects on
humans or the environment.
Indicate where to find a restricted-use pesticide (RUP) statement on a pesticide label. -
answer✔a. At the top of the front panel
A. State the minimum number of years RUP records must be kept - answer✔2 years of
commercial and private applicators and 5 years for category 7b, termite control
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