Plant Manager's Pre Audit Checklist

Does your plant undergo third-party food-safety audits? This checklist, developed by Orkin and NSF Cook & Thurber, will show you how to improve your pest management score on your next audit.

"5 Steps to a Better Audit" Video

Zia Siddiqi, Ph.D., Orkin Director of Quality Systems, shares tips that will help you and your staff improve your next food safety audit score.

"ABCs of Pest Habitat Modification" Video Series

In 10 brief Webisodes, Orkin Director of Technical Services Ron Harrison, Ph.D., shows how you can make your facility less "pest-friendly," long before any chemical treatments are applied.

HealthCarePestControl.com

Co-sponsored by Orkin and the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services(ASHES),this website serves as an online IPM handbook for healthcare professionals. Visitors to the site can request a free copy of the ASHES Recommended Practice Series: Integrated Pest Management, a complete "how to" guide to hospital pest control.

CDC Recommended Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) wrote these recommended Guidelines for pest control in healthcare facilities (see section V. under "Recommendation – Environmental Services").

Guide to IPM in Long Term Care Facilities

Written for Long-Term Living magazine by Orkin Director of Quality Systems Zia Siddiqi, Ph.D., and International Technical and Training Director Frank Meek, this article offers practical advice for keeping out unwelcome "visitors".

Five Things You Can Do To Prevent Infection

In addition to this online guide on how to fight the spread of infection, the Joint Commission offers brochures, posters and video presentations to help health care facilities educate staff members and the public about infection control.

H2E 10 Step Guide To Implementing an Integrated Pest Management Program

Looking to make your pest management program greener? Download this 10 step guide to implementing an IPM program, co-authored by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (now Practice Greenhealth) and Orkin experts.

Sanitation and Storage Quiz

Sanitation and proper storage techniques are critical to effective pest management. Orkin and NSF have created a fun learning quiz to help your staff identify potential trouble spots.

"Before Your Next Health Inspection..." ChecklistEn Espanol

Restaurant owners – coach your employees with this handy checklist developed by Orkin and NSF to make sure your establishment is ready for the health inspector's next visit.

"8 Places To Check Out Before Pests Check In"Housekeeping Checklist/ En Espanol/Russian

Where might pests be hiding in your hotel? Download Orkin's "8 Places to Check Out Before Pests Check In" housekeeping checklist for tips on preventing pest infestations in the eight "hot spots" that pests frequent. Available in English, Spanish and Russian, the checklist is a great learning aide to share with your housekeeping staff.

Multi-Family Property Resident Education Tip Sheets

Residents are your most powerful weapon in the battle against pests. Even a little bit of improvement in their day-to-day behavior can go a long way toward helping to keep pests outside where they belong. Share these monthly tip sheets with your residents to get them thinking smarter about what they can do to help your pest management efforts.

Office Property Tenant Education Tip Sheet

Keeping pests out of the office is everyone's responsibility. Share the following tips with your tenants about how they can help maintain a clean, pest-free office environment.

Green Pest Management: A Property Manager's Checklist

How green is your building? If you haven't thought about it, there's no time like the present. Orkin and BOMA International teamed up to present this five-step checklist to be sure your pest management program is environmentally friendly.

Junior Pest Investigators

Orkin is a proud presenter of Junior Pest Investigators, a series of free K-6 lesson plans that help kids and teachers discover environmentally friendly ways to prevent insects, bugs and rodents from entering our spaces and becoming pests. All materials meet national science standards.

School IPM 2015

Prepared by Thomas Green, Ph.D., of the IPM Institute of North America and Dawn Gouge, Ph.D., of the Department of Entomology at the University of Arizona, this online report outlines a strategic plan for implementing Integrated Pest Management in schools throughout the United States.