Six engagements
I review pest management programs, prepare facilities for survey, respond to citations, serve as Entomologist of Record, train the staff who carry a program between visits, and testify as a retained expert. Which one you need depends on where you are: before an inspection, after a finding, or in front of a court.
- Engagement 01Compliance program review An assessment of the pest management program you already have, measured against the rules that actually govern your building, delivered as a written finding. Read more For facilities directors, risk managers
- Engagement 02Survey readiness A review of the program and the paperwork before an accreditation survey, state inspection, or audit — while there is still time to fix what it finds. Read more For quality and accreditation leads
- Engagement 03Deficiency response After a citation: what the finding actually requires, what a plan of correction has to address, and what evidence will satisfy a revisit. Read more For risk managers, plant operations
- Engagement 04Entomologist of Record A named, credentialed entomologist on your compliance record, with continuing documentation review and survey support between inspections. Read more For health systems, districts, agencies
- Engagement 05Staff IPM training Training for the custodial, maintenance, food service and housekeeping staff who carry the program between service visits: conditions, signs and reporting. Read more For districts, facility networks
- Engagement 06Expert witness Retained opinion work for premises and facility matters: case review, written opinion, deposition, and testimony. Either side of the caption. Read more For trial counsel, insurers, risk counsel
Four of the six are the same work at different distances from a deadline
They are sequential more often than not.
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Compliance program review
Establishes what the facility is actually accountable for and where the program does not meet it. This is where most engagements start.
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Survey readiness
The same assessment run against a date, with the document pull rehearsed before an inspector asks for it.
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Deficiency response
What happens when that was not done in time. A finding is written, a deadline is attached, and the response has to match the tag.
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Entomologist of Record
The standing version: the review does not expire, and there is a named credentialed professional on the record between surveys.
Staff IPM training runs alongside any of them: it teaches the people in the building their part of the program. Expert witness work sits apart. It is retained by counsel, not by the facility, and the practice does not accept expert engagements adverse to a current consulting client.
The engagement does not change with the sector
A survey-readiness assessment works the same way in a correctional kitchen as in a surgical suite. What changes between a hospital, a school district, and a housing portfolio is which authority applies and what evidence it expects — and that is what the industry pages cover. The engagements above are the same work in each.
Jails and detention facilities also have three engagements of their own, built around the state jail standards: see independent pest oversight for jails.
Describe the situation and I will tell you.
The facility, who inspects it, and what is coming — a survey date, a citation already issued with its deadline, an audit, or a matter in litigation. If the honest answer is that you do not need an entomologist, that is the answer you get.