Industrial and commercial work areas must be considered vulnerable to all possible parasitic agents, for the protection of the environment and health. Due to the internal and external traffic of people and vehicles, the light and heavy handling of goods and the type of products processed, pests can strike at any time. The causes and factors can be chemical, physical or biological.
The integrity and cleanliness of work, storage and sales environments can affect the business in many ways. Dirt or poor cleanliness, as well as being the cause of the arrival of any parasites, are a negative image factor, can damage reputation, increase the risk of sanctions by regulatory bodies and ultimately drive away actual or potential customers .
Control of work environments
The type and frequency of checks on the state of health of the company's environments obviously depend on multiple factors, on the vastness of the work area, on the type of protection from invasive actions already existing, on the type of raw materials processed, on the technology of production, the type, quality and quantity of goods stored in the warehouse and of course the time of their storage.
The production areas, those of storage, all equipment and machinery must be kept constantly in order and in perfect cleanliness, preparing adequate sanitation programs with specific rules and procedures such as:
The most common weeds
The parasites are constantly looking for materials suitable for them, food and shelter, making the environment more vulnerable to the spread of the infestation. Especially in seasonal changes, when temperatures are constantly rising or falling, drastic changes in parasite activity occur, with sudden inexplicable first glance manifestations, with sudden and unexpected appearances, and different species of parasites become more of a nuisance during the different seasons.
The range of annoying and potentially harmful parasites is vast, some beings are rare and in any case not to be excluded, but there is a range of being more common that make their control a constant necessity in order not to resort to a sudden and radical last minute. disinfestation.
The most common pests are:
- the food moths that are attracted to foods containing starch and sugar and have very rapid evolution. The female can lay about 200 eggs which after three or four days produce larvae which turn into butterflies ready to lay in their turn. From that moment we can speak of infestation;
- the ants that can enter the environments at any time and from any place, generally attracted by humidity or by sweet or greasy and oily substances, their colonies can quickly reach the level of 500,000 units, and the entire colony can move quickly from one area to another in certain dangerous circumstances or due to particular sources of attraction. If you see a few ants, there may actually be hundreds of thousands not too far away;
Pest control
In the event that despite the prevention and Pest Control there are cases of worrying infestations by one or more parasitic agents, then it is necessary to resort to a real disinfestation intervention, addressing anyway, given the delicacy and importance of the intervention, to companies that operate professionally in the specific field, which also have the experience and technologies in order not to limit themselves to a mere intervention of shock or rupture but to take care to keep the company plant protected and undamaged in the future.
The companies to be taken into consideration must be able to offer a professional and personalized service , to know how to evaluate the characteristics of the systems, the environments and the type of processing carried out, not only to carefully design the characteristics of the disinfestation intervention but also to know how to identify all the prevention and contrast needs of future parasites.
The companies interviewed must have the equipment to make control and prevention solutions operational, customized and specific for each type of company and industry , be able to accurately identify the characteristics of threats, understand their biology, what they eat and the habits of nesting, be prepared and documented to offer advice with the aim of keeping pest populations to a minimum.
Pest control techniques
The methods of pest control and the types of pesticides are of various kinds, applicable in different contexts and in relation to various factors such as the type of pest , the intensity of the infestation, the atmospheric conditions to which the area to be treated is exposed and the characteristics of the environment in which you have to Pest Control Services.
The disinfection is traditionally implemented with:
- physical means, such as the treatment of food with microwaves or radio frequencies, refrigeration, centrifugal force for foodstuffs such as flour or wheat in grains;
- chemical means, such as insecticides, fumigants, pheromones for mass capture.
