Tazkiah Safe Schools Program

Tazkiah Safe Schools Program

Implementing an IPM program helps to reduce human exposure to pesticides. This proactive, rather than reactive, approach to managing pests offers better results in the long term than outdated pest management plans that rely on pesticides alone. Over time, an IPM program can also cost less than conventional pest management by reducing a school’s for pesticide application.

Children have a higher potential to suffer negative consequences from pesticide exposure.

Tazkiah IPM program uses a variety of non-chemical methods as well as pesticides, when needed, to reduce pest infestations to acceptable levels and to minimize children’s exposure to pesticides.

IPM uses a common sense approach that:

• Identifies pests;
• Uses monitoring and recordkeeping to regularly assess pest populations and control efforts;
• determines the pest population levels that can be tolerated based on aesthetic, economic and health concerns, that is, sets “action thresholds” at which pest populations or environmental conditions warrant action;
• prevents pest problems by improving sanitation, managing waste, using exclusion – such as physical barriers, and modifying structures to make them less attractive to pests;
• uses pesticides when necessary, with preference for effective products that are the least harmful to human health and the environment;