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Fertcare is a training, quality assurance, certification and accreditation program delivered by independent third parties on behalf of the fertilizer industry. The various parts of the program are brought together by a licensing system.
The program scope includes environment, food safety and occupational health and safety issues associated with fertilizer and soil ameliorant products throughout the supply chain. The industry’s objectives are to manage risk and liability and to maintain an effective position in public policy development in these areas.
The program focuses on providing high quality advice to users of fertilizers to allow them to maximize productivity and minimize environment and food safety risk.
The training program delivers training in managing food safety, environment and occupational health and safety risks associated with the storage, handling and use of fertilizer and soil ameliorant products.
Fertcare Accu-Spread is a certification program that tests the performance of fertilizer spreaders for uniformity of spread pattern.
 Fertcare Booklet.pdf
Fertcare Farmer Flyer.pdf |
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The Fertcare Accredited Advisor program tests the competence of advisors against national competencies and standards and then provides a regular quality assurance audit program.
A premises quality assurance audit program will be developed that will provide assurance that environment, food safety and occupational health and safety management meets appropriate standards.
The Fertcare licensing system seeks to:
t Encourage the uptake of the training program through licensing of the Fertcare brand;
t Provide a mechanism to maintain the currency of skills and knowledge of those who have been trained;
A booklet about the programcan be downloaded below.
Details of the program rules are in the Fertcare Handbook available from the Hanbooks & Forms page.
The Fertilizer Industry has agreed to implement the Fertcare program on a voluntary basis with a target of 100% compliance by 2010.
More about Training
More about the Fertcare Accredited Advisor program
More about Fertcare Accu-Spread certification.
The Fertcare Booklet describes the program in some detail whilst the Farmer Flyer focusses on the benefits to fertilizer users.
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