Step By Step Certification Guide
Step 1: Determine Eligibility
Note: For businesses with multiple offices, each branch office will be separately evaluated and certified. Separate applications are required.
To be eligible for certification your business must be:
- Licensed for Branch 2 work by the Structural Pest Control Board
- Registered with the County Agricultural Commissioner in the counties in which your business intends to offer certified IPM services and in good standing with each Agricultural Commissioner
- Willing to adhere to the "EcoWise Certified IPM Guiding Principles"
- Willing and able to employ at least one EcoWise Certified IPM Practitioner (See Step 5) in the company or branch office seeking certification; an EcoWise Certified IPM Practitioner must implement or directly supervise the Certified IPM service
Note: Businesses with multiple offices must employ at least one EcoWise Certified IPM Practitioner at each branch office seeking certification.
- Willing to provide IPM services following the EcoWise Certified Standards for IPM Certification in Structural Pest Management
- Willing to maintain separate records pertaining to certification and the EcoWise Certified IPM service and hold those records for at least 3 years
- Willing to permit on-site visits to your place of business to review records of EcoWise Certified services
- Willing to permit a field audit of your EcoWise Certified IPM service at one or more agreed-upon customer sites and permit interviews with customers
Other steps in the process of becoming EcoWise Certified:
Step 1: Determine Eligibility
Step 2: Attend orientation session
Step 3: Fill out the Business Application
Step 4: Send in the Business Application for review
Step 5: Have at least 1 staff member become an EcoWise Certified IPM Practitioner
Step 6: Document at least 20 IPM service visits for 7 different customers following the Structural IPM Standards
Step 7: Schedule an office visit and field evaluation for your business
Step 8: Become fully certified
Step 9: Maintain your business and practitioner certifications