The owners and managers of commercial facilities have many responsibilities to keep their buildings sanitary, productive, and healthy for their workers. One of those responsibilities is to implement pest control measures to ensure that insects, rodents, and other pests don’t spread disease, filth, or harm to anyone in the facilities. Integrated pest management is the most effective way to achieve this objective.
Benefits of Using Integrated Pest Management
Integrated pest management can prevent and eliminate pest infestations in commercial facilities. It involves a series of different pest control strategies and techniques to destroy pests and prevent them from getting back into your commercial facilities. The prevention methods involve everything from setting traps and deterrents to regularly evaluating and monitoring the facilities to verify they are pest-free.
You don’t have to rely on traditional pest control methods that involve using toxic chemicals and sprays to eliminate nasty pests. Instead, there are much safer and more environmentally friendly pest control measures that can be integrated into your commercial facility. These methods are just as effective as the traditional ones too.
Here are some of the advantages of using integrated pest management over traditional methods:
1) Reduces Pest Problems and Disruptions
The number one benefit of using integrated pest management in your commercial facility is to minimise pest problems and disruptions to your productivity. Your integrated pest management can stop rats, mice, spiders, cockroaches, flies, and other common pests from bothering your employees and affecting their work performance.
The result will be happier and healthier employees who offer superb work performance and high productivity. If you continuously maintain your pest management practices, you should never have to deal with any disturbing pest infestation again. Then, you can continuously enhance your facility’s productivity without pests ever getting in the way.
2) Minimises or Eliminates Chemical Use to Protect the Environment
Integrated pest management prioritises the use of eco-friendly pest control methods that don’t require using harmful chemicals. The only exception is when you have a severe pest infestation problem that requires the strongest and fastest pest elimination method possible. But in most cases, the non-chemical pest control methods will work just fine.
Some examples of eco-friendly pest management techniques include physical traps, barriers, natural predators, and microbial pesticides. Modifications to the interior environment may also be necessary, such as setting the right temperature and improving the sanitation in your facility. Simple things like these can go a long way in deterring pests.
3) Comply with Government Rules and Regulations
Your commercial facility has to comply with certain federal, state, or local regulations that require you to maintain a sanitary and safe environment for your workers and customers. A pest-infested commercial facility would certainly be a violation of sanitation laws for businesses. The result of such a violation could include substantial civil fines or possibly even criminal penalties if the violation continues too long.
Integrated pest management will keep you in compliance with the strict pest control rules and regulations in your jurisdiction. Adequate pest control is especially important if you operate a commercial facility that packages or processes food items because there are even more rules governing these activities.
4) Target Areas Most Susceptible to Pests
Do you operate a large commercial facility? Implementing pest control measures in a facility with a lot of square footage may seem impossible. However, you can avoid large-scale pest treatments by integrating pest management practices to target specific areas of your facility only.
The idea is to focus your attention on the areas most susceptible to pest infestations and invasions, such as the doors, windows, and any cracks or gaps in the walls or foundation. This will allow you to conserve your resources and ensure you use them in the most effective way possible to keep your facility pest-free.
5) Establish a Positive Brand Image
Reputation is everything in the business world. Would you want your commercial facility to develop a negative reputation over pest infestation problems? You can prevent this from happening by simply integrating pest management practices into your facility. This would improve your reputation not only among your employees but also among your clients and customers.
A positive brand image makes your company look more professional and respectable. Integrated pest management can improve and sustain this positive brand image within your industry. All your stakeholders will feel much better about working or doing business with your company.
6) Protect Your Inventory and Assets
Pests are a threat to people and property alike. Even if you are not dealing with dangerous pests in your commercial facility, they could still inflict damage upon your property if you don’t get rid of them. In fact, a pest infestation could contaminate or damage the inventory and other assets in your facility. That could become a significant setback to the profitability, reputation, and trust of your business.
Integrated pest management can protect your valuable inventory and assets by preventing pests from harming them. Any commercial facility that processes food or retail goods will need to keep them protected and secure from pests in this manner. Otherwise, consumers will receive damaged, faulty, or diseased products that could cause them to get angry or sick.
Hire A Professional
Are you ready to get started with integrating comprehensive pest management practices into your commercial facility?
Tier 1 Facilities Management can integrate pest management into your facility by focusing on pest prevention, monitoring, trapping, sealing, and more. Its team of facility management professionals specialises in integrated pest management in commercial facilities.
The team will start by conducting a thorough evaluation of your facility to determine the current pest status and identify the most vulnerable areas for infestation. Regardless of your facility’s pest status and vulnerability, the pest control professionals will remove the pests and set up barriers and deterrents to protect them in the future. Cleaning and grounds maintenance will also be part of these integrated pest management services.
Contact Tier 1 Facilities Management at 0330 127 0421 to learn more.
