Safer Pest Management
See a list of all of our tools for reducing pesticide exposure in your home and community.
Safer Pest Management Indoors and Out: View a PDF of our booklet
that will walk you through a new approach to pest management. Paper
booklets are available upon request; we ask for a small donation to
support printing and mailing costs. Resources are also provided in
online format:
- A 5-step pest management plan
- An introduction to integrated pest management: control pests without exposing your family to chemical pesticides.
- Reducing your exposure to pesticides
- Practical tips for avoiding pesticides in your food and your environment.
- Pest management tools
- Here's some tools of the trade for managing pests without exposing your family to pesticides.
- Common pests & prevention
- Get ideas for how to deal with specific household pests without resorting to use of harsh chemical pesticides.
- Pest inspection checklist (PDF)
- Download this checklist for use with our five-step process to managing pests. Routine monitoring will help you deal with pests before they become a problem.
- Safer pest control fact sheet (PDF)
- This one-page guide will help you choose the safest remedies for controlling common pests.
- Eco-Healthy Child Care Fact Sheet (PDF)
- This
one-page fact sheet is designed to help child care providers understand
why it is important to prevent exposure to pesticides in their
facilities.
- Pollution in People: Pesticides
- In our 2007 study, we detected pesticides in the bodies of three out of ten Oregonians that we studied. See a discussion of what we found, what the health risks are, and what can be done about it.
Find out what Oregon Environmental Council is doing to create policies that protect people from exposure to pesticides, and find out how you can support these policies.
