Requirements 4.13.8 for an in-depth pest control survey?

Hi All,

I'm looking for some interpretation of the new clause, 4.13,8, for an in-depth pest control survey. Not sure what they are looking for here. Any ideas?

There was some discussion previously about this in the Pest Control forum.

The Interpretation Guide is supposed to be published on Monday the 30th, so hopefully there will be some specific guidance then.

I do my own pest control services, but do not consider myself to be a "pest control expert".
I had a District Manager from Terminix come in this morning to discuss this topic. He said Terminix does in fact provide this service. I'm waiting on a quote.

Marshall

Think of 4.13.8 asking the the question "is our pest control program up to date, and does it represent best practice?".

You already verify that all of the activities in your service contract (specification) are being performed through various internal audit practices. You are also ensuring through (minimum annual) trend analysis shows that everything remains in control.

The idea of a "pest control expert" would be someone who maintains an up to date knowledge of:
- regulatory changes (in countries of product sale)
- new pests of concern in the geography and industry
- emerging techniques, practices and technologies in pest control
- industry best practice, and emerging issues

Typically, this would be someone from your pest control contractor whose job it is to ensure those services in the contract represent current best practices. The terminology "typically quarterly" is not a concrete timeline - it should take into account the overall risk (location, geography, industry sector, past history....), the frequency of service, and site results.

Hopefully this helps a little.

John Kukoly
BRC

Hi, I'm suggesting to my clients to take under control all the mounthly reports released from the external pest control supplier and reports on a excel file all the trends and give a coment to them! You could ask to you external pest control supplier a comment.

I think you sould demostrated that your pest contol plan is monitorated and take under control so a mounthly trends can demostated that and you can improve preventive or corrective action reading the results.

Ciao

Mauro

I've asked our PCO to make a summary statement indicating whether the pest activity he' seen over the past year (QA has established that we are low risk) warrents updates to our pest control management or whether we're good to continue as is. Basically their auditing their own suggestions.

Hello,

We sub-contract pest control to a specialist company. As part of the contract, we have a fully certified biologist inspect oour facilities and provide a detailled audit report.
This gives us 2 things; the pest control survey and a hit-list of things that we need to do to improve things - or, more to the point, a 'fairly clean bill of health' that shows we have achieve the required levels of control.


All this is in addition to 10 technican visits per year to look afer pests (those with more than 2 legs!) and 4 EFK service visits.

The guys also provide all teh right support documents to satisfy BRC needs for things like fly-counts, baite logs, staff certificsations and contractor competense certificates.



Oh - they also provide some of our training requirement too.

It's a bit of our auditor-defence plan we can rely on when all around us seems inadequate!

Hope this helps,


Regards,


Graham


ps interesting to see so many flags in this post - maybe we in the UK are fortunate to have access to contract pest control companies who offer this level of attention . ..

just wish they could teach me to type too ... sorry for the typos above!