Help Us Protect Fumigation - Your action is required

In 2017, Douglas Products and the fumigation industry in California started a grassroots campaign to voice our concerns with proposed Department of Pesticide Regulation mitigations to the way structural fumigation is done in our state.  With the recent changes in personnel within DPR in 2019, it is time to communicate our message again.  Some of the proposed mitigation and changes suggested have the potential to significantly reduce the number of residential and commercial fumigations being done. 

We need you to take action immediately.  Please click here and fill out all of the required information. When you click on “submit” the letter will be sent to your state assemblyperson, state senator, and Val Dolcini, Interim Director of DPR.

This will demonstrate to DPR the negative impact this will have on your businesses. Your action can educate them from making these changes that will discourage property owners from having apartments and homes fumigated, slow down real estate transactions, and add one to two more days to the fumigation process.  Please pass this message and link on to your co-workers, their families, association affiliates, industry members, and anyone who you feel could be impacted by these unnecessary changes. 

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The Applicator’s Exam has been a topic of discussion recently. The Structural Pest Control Board (SPCB) has taken our comments seriously and asked the Office of Professional Examination Services (OPES) to take another look at it. OPES is an entity within the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) that manages and administers all of the exam for licensing for all of the boards and borrows within the DCA. How OPES determines what is on the test is from the Occupational Analysis (OA) for that license type. The OA is created by interviewing people with that license to see what they do on a daily basis, what they are expected to know, etc. OPES is in the process of updating the OA for the Applicator’s license. This allows them to update the exam as well. While the exam pass rate has increased over the past few months, the test is not accurately representing the daily operations of an Applicator.  On October 23, OPES and SPCB will be holding an open house to discuss this process and these job functions to start this updating process.  We would encourage anybody who feels that they are impacted by the exam to attend this and participate.

Click here for the Applicator OA Focus Group Meeting Information

Other workshops that SPCB is hosting:

Click here for the dates, times and locations for OPR, FR, RA - Branch 1, 2 & 3 Workshops

 

Darren Van Steenwyk
Director of Learning & Technical Services
Clark Pest Control
PCOC Legislative Committee Chair
(209) 224-4629
darrenv@clarkpest.com