{"id":1199,"date":"2021-03-29T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/blog\/application-quiz-knapsacks\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T06:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:25:02","slug":"application-quiz-knapsacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/blog\/application-quiz-knapsacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Quiz &#8211; Knapsacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve worked with ICL to develop an Online quiz (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.co.uk\/r\/PF3P9JL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link here<\/a>) to help support you guys and girls out there spraying &#8211; in this blog series I intend to go through each question, give you an in depth answer and a few useful links.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Do Knapsack, handheld and pedestrian equipment need to be tested under the NSTS scheme\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Every 5 years<\/li><li>Yes, if it has a battery powered pump<\/li><li>Yes, if holding capacity greater than 15 litres<\/li><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">No, but must be checked on a regular basis and a record of inspection kept.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5344\" width=\"715\" height=\"408\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Unlike self-propelled sprayers; Knapsack sprayers, Pedestrian and handheld sprayers do not need to be inspected under the NSTS scheme but must be inspected by a competent person on a regular basis with any faults being repaired and an inspection record kept.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsts.org.uk\/Portals\/1\/Images\/NSTS%20Handheld%20sprayer%20check%20list%20V_06_18_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NSTS recommend using their checklist which can be found here\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Try your luck with the other Application Quiz questions <a href=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/category\/application-quiz\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve worked with ICL to develop an Online quiz (link here) to help support you guys and girls out there spraying &#8211; in this blog series I intend to go through each question, give you an in depth answer and a few useful links. Do Knapsack, handheld and pedestrian equipment need to be tested under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-application-quiz","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/nor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}