Re: [pestlist] Pest Managment Policies

[Brad Bredehoft]

Erika,
Contact Gretchen Anderson at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History who 
I believe you met in Montreal at the Conference in May. She teaches our 
course on Integrated Pest Management. If you need her contact info let 
me know.


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Brad Bredehoft
CEO
Museum Study, LLC
www.MuseumStudy.com


On 11/8/2016 10:44 AM, Erika Range wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am doing a quick survey of other institutions policies when it comes 
to pest management.  I work for a large national museum in Ottawa and 
we are reviewing our policies. Our museum, like many others have begun 
hosting large catered events as an additional source of revenue in 
these challenging times.  We hire an external contractor to implement 
our pest management program (apparently as a cost cutting measure), 
but are disappointed in the results and the amount of our time which 
goes into training these contractors. Does anyone out there have 
experience with implementing policies around the expectations for 
these external companies/contractors? OR do you have experience with 
implementing plans which correlate to hosted/catered events?


We are also reviewing our freezing policies, and we tend to freeze 
everything that comes in or out of collections and exhibit space, 
(building materials, specimens, artifacts etc) as a pest infestation 
would be devastating to our collection.  We are curious as to the 
freezing policies other institutions have specifically around freezing 
non-collection materials. Could anyone share their experiences?


A reply through pest-list is fine, but I'm also happy to discuss 
further using era...@mus-nature.ca 


Kindest regards,

Erika Range

RE: [pestlist] Pest Managment Policies

[Nezka Pfeifer]

Hi Erika,

Am responding on-list only because the Connecting to Collections Webinar last 
week addressed this issue and if you’re a member of the network (free) you can 
download the materials, and policy from the MSU Museum made available here 
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/beyond-no-food-or-drink-in-the-gallery/

The recommendations are to have a separate food management policy that 
correlates to the collections management policy, and that training of museum 
and catering staff is crucial to keep pest issues at a minimum or nonexistent.  
We currently operate with best practices in mind when it comes to food 
management but the webinar has spurred us to actually draft a policy, which I 
think was the case for many of the webinar participants.

Hope this is helpful,

Nezka

 

 

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From: pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net [mailto:pestlist-ow...@museumpests.net] On 
Behalf Of Erika Range
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 11:45 AM
To: pestlist@museumpests.net
Subject: [pestlist] Pest Managment Policies

 

Hi everyone,

I am doing a quick survey of other institutions policies when it comes to pest 
management.  I work for a large national museum in Ottawa and we are reviewing 
our policies. Our museum, like many others have begun hosting large catered 
events as an additional source of revenue in these challenging times.  We hire 
an external contractor to implement our pest management program (apparently as 
a cost cutting measure), but are disappointed in the results and the amount of 
our time which goes into training these contractors. Does anyone out there have 
experience with implementing policies around the expectations for these 
external companies/contractors? OR do you have experience with implementing 
plans which correlate to hosted/catered events?  

We are also reviewing our freezing policies, and we tend to freeze everything 
that comes in or out of collections and exhibit space, (building materials, 
specimens, artifacts etc) as a pest infestation would be devastating to our 
collection.  We are curious as to the freezing policies other institutions have 
specifically around freezing non-collection materials. Could anyone share their 
experiences?

A reply through pest-list is fine, but I'm also happy to discuss further using 
era...@mus-nature.ca

Kindest regards,

 

Erika Range