University of Cape TownFaculty of Health Sciences, 

The Postgraduate Diploma in Pesticide Risk Management (DPRM), offered by the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, aims to equip candidates with the knowledge and skills to enable them to practice as a Pesticide Risk Manager in line with the International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides.

The curriculum covers the following

➤ Pesticide risk management polices and principles

➤ Legal framework for pesticide management

➤ Health and safety management including pesticide epidemiology and toxicology

➤ Management of environmental risk including ecotoxicology, risk assessment and basic environmental chemistry

➤ Alternatives and risk reduction strategies

➤ Quality assurance in pesticide risk management

➤ Obsolete pesticide management

➤ Containers and contaminated site management

➤ International chemical conventions, and

➤ Management of public health pesticides

Requirements: 
This programme is open to students with an undergraduate degree in Agriculture, Public Health, Toxicology, Social Science or other relevant field.

Duration: 
Two-year part-time learning programme.

Delivery mode: 
Web-based courses with mandatory face-to-face learning.

Closing date for applications: 
30 September 2011

Further Information

Mrs Cynthia Lewis, Health Risk Management Programme, School of Public
Health & Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town,
Private Bag X3, Observatory 7935, South Africa

Tel: +27 21 404 7661

E-mail: cynthia.lewis@uct.ac.za