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If your business is designated as an essential service provider and is operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, you’re probably already facing a lot of pressure. Between maintaining a hygienic environment, making a profit and providing good service, pest management may not be top of mind. But whether you’re helping keep the supply chain going, providing healthcare services or offering curbside pick-up from your restaurant, pests like rodents and cockroaches remain a threat that you should actively consider.
A pest sighting on your property can wreak havoc on your business’ reputation, directly impacting your bottom line. To help ensure your business is protected from rodents, cockroaches and other pests, focus on maintaining a clean environment and securing your exterior.
An Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program can maintain or strengthen your proactive approach to helping keep pests away, helping prevent pests not only from entering your establishment, but also from damaging your products or property, should they slip in. Use the following preventive tips as an IPM checklist to help protect your property from pests — so you can focus on your business operations:
Sanitation
Exclusion
Ongoing Inspections
By maintaining a proactive approach to pest management amid the COVID-19 pandemic, your business will be even better positioned in the future to help keep pests out and retain your focus on serving customers. And remember, if you’re interested in going one step further to help protect your employees and customers, we offer Orkin VitalClean, a service designed to disinfect spaces quickly and effectively. The service uses a powerful disinfectant on the EPA’s “List N” of products for use against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — and kills 100% of bacteria and viruses on hard, non-porous surfaces.
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