Practical advice on protecting your premises, passing audits, and getting the most from integrated pest management, straight from our team in Gqeberha.
Your pest control programme is a HACCP prerequisite programme. Auditors will review 7 specific document types, and a gap in any one of them is a finding. Here is exactly what your provider must supply, and what a compliant IPM programme looks like under SANS 10049.
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German cockroaches breed inside refrigerator motor casings and behind dishwashers, areas a monthly spray never reaches. The fix is targeted gel bait in harbourage zones plus sticky trap monitoring. If your report says "treated" with no trap counts, you're flying blind.
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A mouse enters through a 6mm gap. Bait stations manage the population, they don't stop new animals entering. A proper structural survey identifies degraded door seals, pipe penetrations, roof eave gaps, loading-dock thresholds and uncovered drains before the auditor does.
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IPM is not a product or a spray frequency, it is a four-pillar framework: prevention, monitoring, intervention thresholds, and evaluation. A programme that sprays every month regardless of data is not IPM. Here is how to tell the difference, and what SANS 10049 actually requires.
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The Eastern Cape has both subterranean and drywood termite species. They work inside timber for years before showing visible signs. Hollow-sounding wood, mud tubes on foundations, discarded wings in spring and frass pellets are the signals most homeowners miss until it's costly.
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A visually clean surface can carry a high microbial load. Hospital-grade disinfection achieves a validated log-5 pathogen reduction through registered chemistry, correct dwell time, and electrostatic application that reaches surfaces wiping consistently misses. Every treatment includes a written certificate.
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