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Communication and Pest Reporting

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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

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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

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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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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

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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?

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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


Reporting Pests

Pest sighting logs allow for communication on follow-up to pest reports

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GOOD

COMMUNICATION!


Communication and Pest Reporting

As a follow-up to this presentation, consider an activity module:

Case Scenario #3: IPM Communication

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