Speaker: Greg Baumann, National Pest Management Association
Abstract:
Integrated pest management is more than a trendy term in the eyes of the professional pest management firm. The industry has emphasized the hands-on IPM approach through education and training on the technical side. While the general thought might be that the first step is to reduce dependence on traditional products, IPM is a many faceted approach that requires detailed inspection, identification, establishing control methods while considering restrictions and customer needs, and finally, monitoring the effectiveness of the program. Consumers play a major role in determining the overall design which will ultimately lead to a successful IPM program. Consumers have presented their opinions about pest management and using the data presented a truly integrated partnership may be forged when developing a pest management program.
Biography:
Greg is presently the Director of Technical Services for the National Pest Management Association, Dunn Loring VA, a 70 year-old association representing the structural pest management industry worldwide. Greg also is national consumer advisor on pest management, and in particular, answers homeowner questions on all types of pest issues via NPMA’s consumer-oriented website, www.pestworld.org. As Director, he is responsible for all aspects of technical publications, services, and training as well as coordinating the functions of the Technical, Residential, Commercial, and Wood Destroying Organism committees.
Greg regularly develops new technical products and educational services for association members and interacts with government agencies on a variety of pest management industry issues. His pest management experience spans 27 years from the residential to the commercial setting, with particular focus in such areas as food protection and wood-destroying organisms, e.g., termites.
For two years, Greg was President of Pro-Tech Pest Management and Technical Director of PestOne, an affiliate of pest control companies. As president of Pro-Tech, a termite and pest control company which promoted a scientific approach to pest management, he was responsible for all operations until he sold the company.
Prior to his work with NPMA, Greg maintained positions in the pest management industry in the U.S. and Canada. In particular, his experience has included pest management quality assurance functions for numerous divisions of the Hershey Foods Corp., including restaurants, factories, residential structures and commercial buildings. He is the recipient of the Hershey Foods Outstanding Quality Service Award, which has been presented to only eight people since the company was founded in 1903. He also served as technical services director for a national insurance company that underwrites pest management professionals.
Baumann is a frequent speaker on the subject of pest management at state, national and international technical and regulatory meetings. He also is a speaker for seminars sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration and the American Institute of Baking International on topics related to food protection and rodent control. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Millersville State University in Millersville, PA, and is a certified commercial pest management applicator in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He also holds a license in general and wood destroying insects categories in North Carolina.
He has been published on the subject of pest management in numerous trade publications and is often sourced in articles that have appeared in newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post and in broadcast stories on CNBC, NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Prime Time, CNN, and nationwide network affiliate stations. He is also a guest on live radio call-in shows about pest management. He has been selected as a member of the review committee for the National Academy of Sciences and serves on scholarship scientific review committees for Bayer Environmental Science and Nisus Corporation.
Greg is a founding member of the Pennsylvania Pest Control Association Accredited Wood Destroying Insect Inspector Program Committee, the only national accreditation program for wood destroying insect inspectors. He is also former chairman and currently an appointed member of the North Carolina Pest Control Association Wood Destroying Organism Committee. He frequently works with the National Association of Home Builders on pest management issues and was a member of the Ad Hoc Termite Committee of the Southern Building Code Congress. Greg is a member of Phi Chi Omega, the Central Atlantic States Association of Food and Drug Officials and is a voting member of the International Code Congress (building code policy body).
Greg lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.