Communication and Pest Reporting
Your name, title, and school district
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Outline
1. Communicating with staff about IPM
2. Reporting pests
3. Follow-up to this presentation
This presentation was created with funding support from the USDA/NIFA E-IPM grant program Jennifer L. Snyder
Communicating with Staff Everyone has a role in IPM: teachers,
kitchen staff, administrators, and custodians
Custodians are critical in communicating these roles, and occasionally reminding staff about their role in pest management
IPM is not another job: most of you are already doing it
This presentation was created with funding support from the USDA/NIFA E-IPM grant program Jennifer L. Snyder
Communicating with StaffCustodian’s role in IPM
The IPM Coordinator may choose to delegate some responsibilities to the custodian:
Monitoring trap placement, checking, recording?Some types of maintenance (sealing gaps, etc.)?Staff education (informal/day-to-day, or more
formal?)Annual inspection?
Turf and weed management?
Other?
Ask! Be clear about what your IPM Coordinator expects you to do
Jennifer L. SnyderThis presentation was created with funding support from the USDA/NIFA E-IPM grant program
Communicating with StaffCustodian’s role in IPM
How to communicate with teachers, kitchen staff, admin about their role in IPM?
Don’t recreate the wheel; use materials already out there for this purpose!
Share the PNW Pest Press OSU School IPM program websitehttp://www.ipmnet.org/tim/IPM_in_Schools/IPM_in_Schools-
Main_Page.html Choose Pest Press topic Print Pest Press, save/e-mail to staff, ask principal
to e-mail/distribute, etc. Choose method that works best for you
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Communicating with Staff
Custodian’s role in IPM
PNW Pest Press topics:
Ants Bed Bugs Birds Cats Drain flies Food in the classroom Head Lice House Mouse Mosquitoes Pest-proofing Before a School Break Spiders Wasps
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Communicating with StaffCustodian’s role in IPM
How else may custodians communicate IPM to teachers, kitchen staff, admin?
Your district’s IPM Plan The school IPM law (ORS 634.700-634.750) Other IPM educational resources on the OSU
School IPM program page, or your district’s materials
Opportunistically: SHOW staff the relationship between their pest issue and the source of the problem
Jennifer L. Snyder
This presentation was created with funding support from the USDA/NIFA E-IPM grant program
Communicating with StaffCustodian’s role in IPM
How else may custodians communicate IPM to teachers, kitchen staff, admin?
Your district’s IPM Plan The school IPM law (ORS 634.700-634.750) Other IPM educational resources on the OSU
School IPM program page, or your district’s materials
Opportunistically: SHOW staff the relationship between their pest issue and the source of the problem
Jennifer L. Snyder
This presentation was created with funding support from the USDA/NIFA E-IPM grant program
Reporting Pests
How do teachers, kitchen staff, admin, etc., report pests?
How do they report pest conducive conditions (broken screen, need for door sweep, a water leak, etc)? On-the-fly as the custodian is going about
their daily business? Via e-mail? Via phone? Other method?
Jennifer L. Snyder
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Reporting Pests
Most efficient, better overall to document staff reports of pest issues and pest conducive conditions in HARD COPY log Proof that your district is employing IPM
Useful to a contracted pest management professional diagnosing the issue
Facilitates communication among custodial staff (e.g., who followed up on the issue?)
Allows IPM Coordinator to assess IPM solutions, program annually (what are the most frequent pest complaints? Are our solutions working?)
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Reporting Pests
Pest sighting log sample form
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Staff Lounge
Kitchen
Main office
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Reporting Pests
Pest sighting logs allow for communication on follow-up to pest reports
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GOOD
COMMUNICATION!
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Communication and Pest Reporting
As a follow-up to this presentation, consider an activity module:
Case Scenario #3: IPM Communication
Jennifer L. Snyder
This presentation was created with funding support from the USDA/NIFA E-IPM grant program