Internal vs. External Pest Control

Hello all! 

I am (newly) the Product Compliance Manager for a small R&D and manufacturing facility regulated by both CFR 110 and 111. When I say small, we only have 5 full time employees. I have done research on getting our production guys qualified to handle pest control duties, but when we received the packets for certification...it is a lot more than we anticipated. My question is posed to other smaller facilities: what do you use for pest control? I'm afraid that going external and using a contractor such as Terminix will not make sense financially.

Thank you! 

Pest Control is one of those services that I can honestly say is worth outsourcing to the experts.

Are you planning on going for GFSI Certification of some sort?

Hello,

in my opinion an external contact is much better. In the EU you have to show up a lot of certificates, if you want to do pest control in a good manner.

- did the pest controlling guy really lear this job

- do you've got the licence for using toxic or other special substances

- do you've got the licence for killing vertebrates

- if using tox baits, did you do the right risk assesment to be allowed to use them according to the risk minimation strategy

Our company is using also a very good online system, whoring all plans with latest results, evaluation of trends, safety data sheets for products, training records for technicians.

I am also getting twice a year a biologist for an extended run.

So having an external contarctor can be very fine. But I have also to admit, that we are much bigger than you.

Yours

Werner

One thing we looked at to save cost was to have an outside contractor handle any chemical applications and assessments as well as monthly trap inspections (at a minimum). For weeks that the only thing the service provider was doing was checking traps for catches, we had internal staff do that. If a catch had occurred the provider was called in to handle it.

This was a recommendation from an auditor to meet a happy medium between having the trained, licensed experts handle it while watching cost.

Hello all! 

 

I am (newly) the Product Compliance Manager for a small R&D and manufacturing facility regulated by both CFR 110 and 111. When I say small, we only have 5 full time employees. I have done research on getting our production guys qualified to handle pest control duties, but when we received the packets for certification...it is a lot more than we anticipated. My question is posed to other smaller facilities: what do you use for pest control? I'm afraid that going external and using a contractor such as Terminix will not make sense financially.

 

Thank you! 

Hi svnh.bell,

The amount of pest control effort required by a 3rd party may well depend on yr scale of operation. This sounds possibly minute unless you have an army of robots ?