Professional Integrated Pest Management And Control Strategies For Your Commercial Property
Pests of all shapes and sizes can have a devastating impact on your business, causing structural damage to your property, putting your employees at risk, harming your commercial reputation, and have a devastating financial impact. In order to avoid a serious pest infestation on your commercial property, an integrated pest management (IPM) approach is required.
Benefits Of Lifetime Pest Control Integrated Pest Management Program
Lifetime Pest Control Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program provides a comprehensive pest control analysis of your facilities, a customized pest control strategy tailored to your specific needs, and constant pest control maintenance that is in compliance with all applicable regulations. Regardless of the industry or pest, your local Lifetime Pest Control technician will provide effective and reliable commercial solutions that will professionally protect your commercial facility.
How Does Lifetime Pest Control IPM Program Work?
In order to understand how Lifetime Pest Control IPM program works, you first need to know what an IPM program is. This program is a sustainable way of managing pests using a combination of various tools and approaches in order to prevent pests from entering, or establishing themselves within your commercial space. IPM also focuses on implementing innovative solutions that minimizes the pest population on your property to avoid any economic, health, property or environmental damage.
This is done by using a scientifically backed multi-step process. These steps include:
Prevention
The first step to preventing pests on your commercial property is to understand what is attracting them. Your Lifetime Pest Control technician will assess your commercial property for any factors that could be conducive for pests to feed, nest, and breed. They will then apply pest biology and habitat modification strategies to prevent them.
This process involves correcting any gaps within sanitation practices, maintenance efforts, waste management practices, storage practices, and housekeeping practices. The technician will also work with your team to eliminate and/or modify conducive environments to eliminate food, water, and harbourage for pests in order to keep them away from the property.
Monitoring
Your Lifetime Pest Control technician will then set up monitoring stations and will look for any possible evidence of a potential pest problem. This monitoring process provides for early detection of the problem so that intervention is timely and an infestation is addressed before it gets out of hand. Monitoring not only works as early detection tool but it provides information on pest type, size, occurrences, origin, possible causes, and trends which are important information for the prevention and intervention processes.
Intervention
Once your Lifetime Pest Control technician has correctly identified that there is in fact a pest issue present, your pest expert will start to implement a variety of different control methods to effectively contain the pest population on your commercial property.
Solutions that may be implemented by your Lifetime Pest Control technician can include physical control methods such as mechanical traps and heat/cold treatments. Alternatively, naturally occurring treatments such as pheromone traps and insect growth regulators may be used, while chemical treatments are only implemented as a last resort.
Evaluate and Documentation
Evaluation is a significant part of the IPM process. It helps your Lifetime Pest Control technician to assess the effectiveness of the intervention processes used and any readjustments to the program that may be needed to increase its effectiveness. The whole program is documented; you will have the choice of an electronic or hard copy document outlining what was done, along with any recommendations. Documentation is especially important if your business undergoes third party or regulatory audits.