Seven sectors, seven different answers to the same question
Who inspects this facility, under what authority, and what are they entitled to ask for?
- Healthcare No explicit hospital pest standard exists in federal regulation, and hospitals are cited for pests constantly. The deepest proof the practice holds. Healthcare
- K-12 schools Utah requires a written school IPM plan with seven named elements. Most states require something; almost none require the same thing. K-12 schools
- Food service FDA Food Code 6-501.111 names four means of pest control. Three of them are not pesticide application. Food service
- Corrections Pest conditions in a correctional facility are litigable under the Eighth Amendment. The evidence is the sighting log and the dates. Corrections
- Government facilities Federal agencies are required by statute to use IPM — which reaches how they buy pest management, not just how they do it. Government facilities
- Multifamily Under NSPIRE an inspector does not need to see a live pest, and an active extermination contract is not a defense. Multifamily
- Museums, archives and historic buildings In a collection the objects are the food source. A pest program built for an office building protects the building and misses the collection. Museums, archives and historic buildings
What governs each one
Each page names the governing authority, cites it exactly, states what it requires, and says plainly where the requirements conflict or go silent. Every citation carries an explicit statement of how far it has been verified.
- Healthcare
- CMS Conditions of Participation; 42 CFR §482.41(a) and §482.42(a)(3)
- K-12 schools
- Utah Admin. Code R392-200-18; state school IPM statutes
- Food service
- FDA Food Code §6-501.111; HACCP prerequisite programs
- Corrections
- Eighth Amendment conditions of confinement; food code obligations
- Government facilities
- 7 U.S.C. §136r-1; VHA Directive 1850.02
- Multifamily
- HUD NSPIRE; 24 CFR §5.703; state habitability statutes
- Museums, archives and historic buildings
- 36 CFR Part 79; 43 CFR §10.10 (NAGPRA)
Why the sector is not the specialty
Healthcare has the deepest proof today and the healthcare page is correspondingly the longest. That reflects where the evidence has been assembled, not where the practice stops. The discipline transfers: a correctional kitchen and a hospital kitchen are inspected against much of the same food code, a school district and a housing portfolio both manage many buildings against one program, and every one of these sectors shares the structural problem that the rules governing it were not written with pests in mind.
The method does not depend on the sector.
If your facility is inspected by somebody against a rule that barely mentions pests, the work is the same. Send the facility and the authority it answers to.