Small Modifications to Your Facilities to Prevent Rodents’ Entry in Singapore

Rodent management and control is the prime concern for most of the food manufacturers, suppliers and retailers. Since they can seemingly hit the storage and manufacturing units at anytime, it is important to take preventive measures for restricting their entry into commercial areas. They are the carriers of dangerous bacteria, infections, and diseases, which may put your goodwill and reputation at stake. If you wish to make your facility less hospitable to pests and rodents, then making taking steps to introduce a comprehensive rodent monitoring programme and installing preventative measures in your current business premises is a wise decision. Read the following sections to know more about how some easy yet crucial modifications in your facilities can help in preventing rodent’s entry at commercial spaces:

1.Ensure Proper Storage of Tools and Equipment

Pests and rodents usually take shelter anywhere they can. They love to take shelter in dark and warm spaces to hide their presence from humanity. If you continue to keep your equipment, crates, tools, and pallets loosely in your store rooms, then you may send an open invitation to attract pests and rodents for seeking shelter. If you wish to discontinue this habit, then assign a box for every tool or organize their storage to ensure that the store room looks clean and clutter free.

2.Removing Litter and Waste

It is important to consider that piles of litter may offer shelter to pests and rodents by allowing them to hide inside easily. Since rats and mice roam around freely in search of food, your poorly discarded waste could become a readily accessible source of food for them. Most of the best and proven monitoring strategies are as simple as throwing away food and litter properly to prevent rodents and pests attacks in commercial spaces.

3.Maintain Your Surroundings

If you’re operating your business in an open area or have a park or garden, then it is important to keep a check on weeds and grass as they can provide shelter for a range of pests and rodents. Experts recommend keeping a two-foot band around the facility free of plants, grass, or organic material to ensure that your business location is a non-attracting buffer zone.

4.Inspect Incoming Shipments

Making modifications doesn’t only relates to structure and making improvements in your facilities, it also refers to modifying current processes and procedures to ensure that you invite minimal uninvited guests. Warm temperatures can speed up the breeding cycle of mice, rats, and other pests. If your facility has some darker and warmer areas, then it becomes highly important that you inspect all the incoming shipments and consignments to ensure that they are not a part of it.

5.Replacing Lights Can Help

Making a few amendments in your current lighting strategy can contribute to keeping pests and rodents away from your facility. If you wish to ensure optimal safety of your guests and customers, then install standard mercury vapor lights or pink, yellow, or orange tinted bulbs can help you to keep the rodents and pests away. If you wish to adopt the best rodent control strategy, then it is recommended to keep your windows a little shady and dark and prevent the indoor lighting from being visible from outside.

Many of these strategies seem simple but most rodent infections come from momentary lapses in your attention. Monitoring rodents constantly is an important and necessary part of your task. Finally, if nothing helps, then call your rodent control partner and seek professional help to wipe them off from your commercial spaces!

Mathew Thompson is a Pest Management Specialist and her vast industrial experience helps her in designing best rodent control plans in Singapore for commercial and residential complexes.