The UC IPM Web site offers several free online training courses for landscape and structural pest management professionals on topics including integrated pest management, pesticides and water quality, herbicides, pesticide equipment, and calibration. These courses offer continuing education units that satisfy the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), the Structural Pest Control Board, or both.

Another course is designed to prepare you to take the DPR Maintenance Gardener Category Q Qualified Applicator Certification (QAC) exam.

You'll also find links to two free online training courses for retail nursery and garden center employees. These courses are ideal for employees or Master Gardeners who answer consumer questions about pests, pesticides, and less toxic or “green” pest management solutions. Each course takes less than an hour to complete and includes videos, narration, and many photographs and animations. After finishing each course and taking the quizzes, you'll receive a personalized Certificate of Completion from the University of California.

Find these resources at http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/training.