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Bitesize training: pests in domestic buildings
Overview
This training event explores the investigation and identification of common household pests. Delegates will learn how pests gain entry into buildings and how to recognise the signs of their presence. The event will discuss the effects of pests within a building, the damage they may cause to the structure and fabric of a building, and the hazards this may represent.
Delegates will examine common methods of construction to prevent pests entering a building, practical repairs to remediate any damage they may have caused, measures to deter their entry, and treatments for their removal and eradication.
Pests which will be considered:
• Rats, mice, squirrels
• Wood boring and plaster beetles, cockroaches, wasps, ants and houseflies
Objectives
- Establish how pests gain access to buildings
- Understand how to identify them
- Recognise the damage they cause and the risks they pose within domestic dwellings
- Carry out works of improvement. Prevent their access into the property and prepare a schedule to make good the damage caused
- Be able to come up with a treatment plan
- Be confident that the plan will be effective
Who should attend?
- Housing EHOs
- Property managers
- Repair surveyors
What past delegates thought:
- "Whole presentation informative and concise"
- "The entire course for me was very interesting and the speaker had huge knowledge which I found excellent."
CPD: 2 hours
John Easey, Environmental Health Practitioner
John has worked in the field of housing standards for the last 20+ years, both in private practice providing consultancy, survey and training services, and more recently as an enforcement officer within local authority private sector housing teams. He has also been a member of the English Housing Survey team since 2001 and has used the HHSRS in survey work from 2002.
He has been involved in training local authority and housing association officers on the provisions of the Housing Act 2004, either through the various initial government funded training schemes or by direct commission from clients, since the mid-2000s.
He recently retired from his part time role in a local authority as a senior private sector housing officer with responsibilities including general complaints, HMO licensing and enforcement, caravan site licensing, DFGs, and the development of policy and procedures, to concentrate on his housing consultancy practice and on training provision.
Date
Time
Venue
Online, Zoom
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Price
CIEH member: £59
Affiliate member: £119
Non-member: £119
CIEH student member: £119
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