Mr. Jonathan Knowles

This training has been developed to give you the basic skills for carrying out a workplace risk assessment in a social housing workplace setting.

A good tool for level 3 for planning management of sports turf surfaces. Allows calculations in conversion, calibration, establishment, feeding, irrigation, mowing, pesticides, top dressing and others. Use caution when costing as it is only done in $, however there is a workaround – input the £’s as $’s and change all prices to per kg / L / g and; areas to ha and sq m.

This is a useful app when when discussing Stimpmeter and can be a useful addition when learning about the Stimpmeter. A good lesson would include comparing the reading with a real Stimpmeter and doing the maths to find how effective it is.

A very useful tool for entry level weed identification work. All assists in naming professional chemical and cultural control measures.

A good reference of sports turf specific weeds, as well as images. There are control measures for chemical and cultural. There are some grass identifications within the app too.

Use Report Monster to create plans and storm ideas when developing new projects or use to label images with dimensions, text and footnotes. Ideas for use -photographing an area and then use as a planning tool for a new construction development and estimating resources.

Create forms for health and Safety audits. Can also be utilised to create reports for other evaluation purposes.

Developer site for updates and related apps – http://www.regularberry.com/

This iPad app was recommend as a good tool for learners to use when learning about risk assessments at both level 2 and 3. This has been recommend for colleagues to use. There is also an iPhone version. The paid version is currently £1.99 (March 2014)