EDITORIAL | PPC109 October 2022

You’d think after 109 issues, we might run out of things to learn about rats and mice.

Rodent control has come a long way since the Egyptians kept cats in their grain stores in 3000 BC.

But the pace of change over the last five-to-ten years – with stewardship, new rodenticides and attitude changes to the products we use - means there’s still plenty to learn, no matter how many rat seasons you’ve been through.

Talking of plenty to learn, BPCA Registered will soon be turning five years old. There have been many conversations about CPD ‘point collecting’ and its value in the sector.

As a rule, pest professionals love learning but hate burdensome administrative nonsense. Every day is a school day, so recording 20 hours of CPD should be a simple task for every technician.

However, your CPD needs to feel valuable to you as an individual. If you’re ticking off the same CPD quizzes every year or find that the resources available are basic and condescending, maybe you’re not getting enough from your CPD scheme.

We do our best to pack PPC with interesting articles for all experience levels. If you’re on BPCA Registered, remember anything you do that helps you to be a better pest professional counts as CPD - you just have to record it.

You don’t need to travel to breakfast meetings or pay for training courses.

You can do it in the field, with a colleague, over a bacon buttie with friends, with a YouTube documentary or by following a Google rabbit hole to satisfy your curiosity.

No one wants to be a ‘bait box kicker’, so why should you settle for a ‘CPD box ticker’?

We realise that not all CPD schemes work that way, but if you want to chat with us about BPCA Registered or the CPD materials (like PPC magazine) that BPCA provides, get in touch today.

Scott and Dee
PPC editors
hello@bpca.org.uk

Source: PPC109