How Do Supermarkets Keep Pests Away

To help ensure food safety and protect consumer health and the business’ reputation, it’s crucial to keep the pests away and apply regular measures to prevent their entry and proliferation in the first place. It’s especially the case with supermarkets that are full of food products that rodents, cockroaches and other pests will be attracted to. As a result, this requires a professional, detailed and tailored approach to help ensure food safety and consumer protection.

How professional pest treatment works

Professional pest treatment is not a one-time extermination or removal event. Rather, it’s an ongoing process that goes through the months and years. Here, management is actually the more appropriate term than treatment. This is to emphasise that keeping the pests away requires regular inspection, monitoring and even improvement to the existing pest management plan.

For example, in supermarkets it’s common to have the premises inspected every three or six months. It’s also common to have the measures updated and modified depending on the level of pest infestation and threat. The entire process can start with an inspection, identification of pests and level of threat, initial pest extermination, blocking pest entry points, minor repairs to fix the holes and cracks and setup of traps. Then, inspection and maintenance will be done usually once every month or three months. Also, there will be audit compliance and other risk management measures.

It’s an ongoing process which becomes a vital and regular part of supermarket operations and management. This is essential for compliance to existing regulations and latest standards. More importantly, this is about protecting the customers’ health. Other related concerns could be about protecting the business’ reputation. It only takes one incident to repel customers and affect the supermarket’s sales.

To help protect consumer health and the supermarkets’ reputation, here at Hills Commercial Pest Control we ensure professional pest management and we tailor our service according to each site’s requirements and conditions. Since 2006, we’ve been specialising in applying the most effective, practical and safest approach in keeping the pests away from food and commercial premises.