IPM and Pesticide Safety How Washington has linked the two together.

Carrie Foss WSU Urban IPM and Pesticide Safety Education Program

Pest management and pesticide safety make a good pair.

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One day of each recertification program is focused on personal safety and environmental protection and one day on IPM.

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The WSU IPM Certification Program

offers WSDA credits and WSU IPM credits.

Attendees learned about the impacts of environmental chemicals on salmon at the WSU Puyallup fish lab.

Rain garden plant selection was another topic during the Water Quality and IPM hands-on workshop.

School district personnel and PMPs are trained in integrated pest management and pesticide safety.

The Stop Pests curriculum for multi-family housing also includes pesticide safety and IPM in their training events.

The Washington State Department of Health presented the “PMP and Pyrethroids Biomonitoring Study” results.