If you need to buy or use sheep dip products, then under the Medicines (Exemptions for Merchants in Veterinary Drugs) Order 1998 you will need to hold this qualification.

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It covers preparing to dip sheep by demonstrating understanding and knowledge of legislative, welfare and environmental requirements, protective clothing, record keeping, control of external parasites, sheep diseases and dip disposal. 

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Content Covered 

- Understand the parasites to be controlled and the harm they cause

- How to keep yourself and other workers safe from the dip chemical

- How to avoid contaminating the environment with dip chemical

- Looking after your sheep

- The dip products that can be used

- What makes a good sheep dipper

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