Buying
Structural
Pest
Management Services:
Smart
Purchasing Reduces Both Pest
Complaints and Pesticide Use
Oxford Palace Hotel, 745 S. Oxford
Avenue,
Los Angeles
April 18, 2007
7:30 Registration, coffee
8:00 Welcome
PDF
8:15 Introductions, agenda and materials review
8:30 The case for IPM: What is it and why bother?
Tom Green, IPM Institute PDF
9:00 IPM at the General Services Administration: Reducing
pest
complaints by 89% and pesticide use by 93% in government buildings over 10
years. Albert Greene, General
Services Administration
9:40 Break
10:00 Breakouts
Track
I: How to get the service provider and service you want and deserve.
Creating IPM Bid Specifications and Contracts. Albert Greene PDF
Track
II: IPM for common structural pests. How
does IPM delivery differ from conventional?
A look at the latest IPM technologies and techniques for rodents,
ants, cockroaches and bed bugs, including experience using bed bug
detecting dogs as a tool to help manage this re-emerging, challenging
pest. Tom Green, Luis Agurto
Bed Bug PDF
Urban
Pesticide Pollution Prevention Project's Ant Management Training website
Noon Lunch (provided)
1:00 Breakouts (continued)
Track
I: Getting what you paid for. Overseeing
your IPM provider. Albert Greene. Third-party
certification options, Tom Green
Dr.
Albert Greene's PDF
Track
II: IPM for common structural pests (continued).
Third-party certification options, Tom Green, Luis Agurto
PDF
2:20 Break
2:40
General Session
It can
be done! Successful
buyer-provider partnerships:
Ecolab School IPM, Paul Cardosi
PDF
Innovative Pest
Management and City of Santa
Monica,
Carl Doucette and Karl
Bruskotter
PESTEC, IPM Provider and
City/County of San
Francisco,
Luis Agurto
Orkin Commercial Services, Pat
Copps PDF
4:00
Local resources for more information, Cheryl Wilen,
UC Extension
4:30
Adjourn
Dr.
Albert Greene brings twenty years of experience managing pest control
contracts for federal buildings to the workshop.
Dr. Greene has meticulously documented an 89% reduction in pest
complaints and 93% reduction in pesticide use during his tenure as
regional entomologist at the
US
General Services Agency.
Dr. Greene taught
participants how to replicate his successful program which resulted in a
90% reduction in pest complaints and pesticide use over ten years. He is
an expert in designing and implementing IPM bid specifications, service
contracts and contractor oversight.
Luis Agurto of PESTEC has
provided IPM services to the City and County
of
San Francisco
since 1996. PESTEC’s newest
staff addition is “Ladybug,” a trained bed bug detection dog now
working to identify bed bug harborages in shelters, hotels and other
facilities.
Additional
instructors included pest management professionals from national and
regional firms who have successfully partnered with schools, municipal and
county governments, health care facilities, food processing and
distribution plants and the hospitality and entertainment industries to
deliver high quality services with a minimum of pesticide use.
This workshop was offered by the non-profit
IPM Institute of North America
and sponsored by California Department of Pesticide Regulation, the City of Los Angeles, the City of Santa Monica, Ecolab Pest
Elimination Services, Innovative Pest Management of El Segundo, Orkin
Commercial Services, PESTEC, the University of California IPM Program, the
USDA Western Region IPM Center and Warner Bros. Studios.
Workshop
flier.
