Green-tech, who is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year; reinforces its commitment to investing in
people by sending its team out in force.
Five people have attended rigorous BASIS training courses to
strengthen the company’s inhouse expertise.
Roger McGivern and Josh Forster from the Sales team have
successfully completed and passed the BASIS Foundation Award in Amenity
Horticulture and have been added onto the BASIS Professional Register as
Associate members.
This foundation course on pesticide use and best practice will
allow them to have a greater understanding of their customers’ needs. This
means Green-tech has even more people available to assist groundsmen’s,
greenkeepers and landscapers working in the amenity sector.
Glenn Brown, Andrew Walker and Cameron Fyfe from the Warehouse
team have all passed the BASIS Nominated Storekeeper Course, a formal
qualification in the storage and handling of chemicals and pesticides.
As their
role involves the handling and distribution of chemicals and pesticides, they
attended the BASIS Nominated Storekeeper Course which equips trainees with the
knowledge and skills to meet the standards of pesticide storage as outlined in
the Code of Practice for Suppliers of Pesticides to Agriculture, Horticulture
and Forestry.
Sales Director Richard Gill comments, “This foundation course has
enhanced and broadened our inhouse expertise which will naturally benefit our
customers making a choice on professional chemical products. Both Roger and
Josh have a wealth of industry and product knowledge; this coupled with the
knowledge gained is a real boom for Green-tech.”
Chairman, Richard Kay continues, “Green-tech sells a wide range of
chemicals. It’s imperative that the advice we give is both correct and
more importantly current. These chemicals can be dangerous but they are
essential for our customers’ work so it’s vital we manage their sale, storage
and transportation safely and properly. These are quite rightly tough courses
as the qualification is certified by BASIS. I am delighted for them all.”
BASIS was established by the pesticide industry in 1978. It is an
independent standard setting and auditing organisation for the pesticide,
fertiliser and allied industries and, in short, promotes and encourages
professional standards in these industries.
