Child Day Care Facilities Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

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• What is IPM? Integrated pest management (IPM) is a widely accepted approach to pest management that results in effective suppression of pest populations while minimizing human health and environmental hazards.

  Read more about IPM in the Keep Pests Out of Your Child Care Center brochure, PDF (1.3 mb) or En Español, PDF (175 kb)
• Video Series - Integrated Pest Management for Child Care Centers
• Integrated Pest Management: A Toolkit for Early Care and Education Programs
• IPM and HSA Training available for child care providers
• Child Care & School Pest Information Series - IPM practices for common pests
• Child Day Care Facilities IPM Articles
• DPR’s School IPM publications - Includes IPM curricula, guidebook, practices for common pests, posters, recordkeeping calendar and more.
• Green Cleaning for Child Care Providers
• Pest Management Trends in California Child Care Centers, PDF (939 kb)
  Report on the most recent survey covering pest management and pesticide use in California child care centers.
• Reducing pesticide use - fact sheets about how to reduce pesticide use around homes and gardens

• Healthy Schools Act Compliance Packet for Child Care Centers, PDF (1.3 mb)
  • Healthy Schools Act Requirements in English, PDF (146 kb)
  • IPM Plan for Child Care Centers, PDF (724 kb)
  • Annual Notification of Pesticide Use, PDF (88 kb)
  • Registry for Notice of Pesticide Applications, PDF (108 kb)
  • Pesticide Application Warning Sign, PDF (53 kb)
  • Pesticide Use Reporting for School and Child Care Center Employees, PDF (228 kb)
    Starting January 1, 2015, school districts and child care centers are required to submit pesticide use reports to DPR using this form. For January 1 to December 31, 2015 submit reports of pesticide applications to DPR no later than January 30, 2016. A good idea is to start keeping your records on the form, PDF (228 kb) now!
  • Pesticide Use Report - Absence of Reporting Form, word (60 kb) - Use this template to let us know your district does not have any pesticide use to report, then send it via e-mail.
  • Pesticide Use Report for Pest Control Businesses, PDF (218 kb)
• Table of Healthy Schools Act Responsibilities, PDF (237 kb) – For public K - 12 schools, licensed child care centers, and pest control or landscaping businesses that apply pesticides at schools or child care centers.
• Healthy Schools Act Amendments Fact Sheet, PDF (195 kb)
  Starting January 1, 2015, new amendments to the Healthy Schools Act will go into effect. Schools and licensed child care centers (schoolsites) applying certain pesticides are required to establish an IPM Plan, report pesticide use at least annually to DPR, and, starting on July 1, 2016, complete IPM training.
• Healthy Schools Act text, PDF (259 kb) - Text from the California Business and Professions Code, Education Code, Food & Agricultural Code, and Health & Safety Code related to the Healthy Schools Act.
• The law does not require an integrated pest management plan, posting, notification, recordkeeping, or reporting for treatments involving certain kinds of pesticide products. Training is always required. The categories of products exempted are:
  • Self-contained baits and traps
  • Gels or pastes used for crack-and-crevice treatments
  • Antimicrobials
  • Products listed as minimum-risk pesticides by the U.S. EPA
    
  To determine whether a product is exempt or not, review the categories above, then read the label carefully. To get an idea of which products are potentially exempt, you may consult our HSA Exempt Products Flowchart, PDF (271 kb).
• List of pesticide products prohibited from use in schools and child care centers (English, PDF, 50 kb) (En Español, PDF, 55 kb)
• Information for pest control businesses

• About safe pesticide use - DPR fact sheets
• Clean, sanitize, or disinfect?, PDF (86 kb) - This table shows areas in a child care center with the processes you should use to keep the area as germ-free as needed. California child care licensing regulations specify when and where you should clean, sanitize, or disinfect.
• Caring For Our Children Standards - The National Resource Center has information about new bleach concentration in common products. The concentration of most bleach solutions has changed and you could be using too much. How does this affect your health and the health of the kids at your child care center?
• U.S. EPA Product Labeling - The US EPA has a Pesticide Product Label System where you can find specific label instructions for any registered product.
• U.S. EPA Fact Sheet on Pesticides and Their Impact on Children, PDF (157 kb) - Key facts about the risks associated with pesticides
• Useful links - information on pesticides and related topics
• Structural Pest Control Board - information about fumigation for pest control, household pest control, and termites

• School IPM HELPR - for a specific pest, provides management tactics and potential human health and environmental impacts

For more information about the Healthy Schools Act:

Schools contact:
California Department of Education
Robert Corley
Telephone: (805) 835-3089
E-mail: rcorley@cde.ca.gov

Child care facilities contact:
California Department of Social Services
Child Care Advocates
E-mail: ChildCareAdvocatesProgram@dss.ca.gov

For more information about school and child care IPM contact:
Department of Pesticide Regulation
Lisa Estridge
E-mail: school-ipm@cdpr.ca.gov

We hope this Web site answers most of your questions on school IPM (if not, please send us a suggestion).
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Child Care IPM Announcements are transmitted to our subscribers periodically and are aimed at those who work for or with child care providers. Announcements will include information regarding the Healthy Schools Act, training opportunities for child care providers, IPM resources, green cleaning and other pest management topics related to child care IPM.