This is a proactive rather than reactive approach. As a result, it provides the school district, and its individual school campuses, a sustainable and long-term pest management alternative to traditional pesticide-only approaches. This model policy represents our recommendation for best management practices for the successful implementation of pesticide safety and integrated pest management in kindergarten to 12th grade schools and is not intended to supersede state, tribal or local requirements, where those requirements are more stringent or specific.
Find out more about sustainable approaches to verifiable integrated pest management in schools. The model policy is presented in sections in italics. Each section is introduced with background and rationale. View the model policy. Word Version docx. This guidance document represents U. It is not intended to supersede state, tribal or local requirements.
You should modify the suggestions here to tailor them to your specific needs. Contact your State Lead Agency for pesticide regulation to determine any certification, licensing or permitting requirements for commercial pesticide applicators and commercial pesticide application businesses as the requirements and terminology vary by state. Some school districts choose to procure their pest management services through contracts with pest management service providers.
The following information can help school staff and officials responsible for procuring pest management services ensure they are soliciting and receiving IPM-based services. While these resources provide guidance in developing your contract, your IPM coordinator, legal consultants, and university extension faculty should participate in your contract development. An individual possibly the IPM Manager should be identified to maintain and be responsible for this document.
All employees in the given area should know who this person is and report any pest sightings accordingly. The pest manager reviews this document at the beginning of each visit and responds appropriately. In IPM, pesticides are used in combination with other crop management approaches to minimize the effects of pests while supporting a profitable system that has negligible negative effects.
The concept of IPM was hatched in the through the environmental movement that resulted in part from the purported pesticide use abuses that were described in Rachel Carsons book, Silent Spring. Integrated Pest Management allows for a win-win situation for all involved. The goals of the program are at the heart of the National IPM Roadmap, a document adopted in to provide definition to an expanding universe of applications for IPM.
At the heart of this debate is a concern that pesticide users do not adequately protect the food supply, the environment, and farm workers from unintended adverse effects. Meanwhile, pesticide users face increasing pest resistance to pesticides, the loss of economical pest control products due to regulatory actions and market forces, and higher costs of new reduced risk pesticides. NIFA partners with researchers and educators in the Land-Grant University System and the private sector to develop and implement new ways to address these complex pest management issues.
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