Many businesses are under increasing pressure as the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the globe. While key industries such as disinfection and healthcare are at the frontline of the fight against its spread, other businesses have suffered an economic slowdown as they have been forced to vacate their buildings.
With most business structures now empty, rodents now have more than enough room to cause physical damage and spread diseases. According to the World Health Organization, rodents spread over 30 harmful bacteria, helminths, protozoa and viruses. Without an effective rodent management strategy in place, businesses are at great risk of infestation problems as rodents will be able to multiply in an uncontrolled manner.
How Rodents Can Impact Businesses During the Lockdown
Empty buildings provide the perfect habitat for rodents to shelter and breed, especially as there is little to no people-disturbance. Rodents can damage literally every part of a building they gain access to during their search for food and breeding spaces. They can shred materials and their gnawing damage can be devastating. What’s more, their breeding capacity is terrifying: rats and mice produce multiple litters within a year, birthing several generations of their young within a short period of time.
Since the start of this global pandemic, businesses like cafés and restaurants have shut down operations, leading to increasing rodent populations as their regular food sources continue to decline. In addition, the living conditions obtainable in buildings ensure better survival rate for rodents than the wild. Left unattended, rodents can take over a business structure, posing great risk to the health and wellbeing of employees and customers.
There’s no doubt that protecting your business structure during this lockdown is critical to the success of your operations when business returns. Taking action now will not only keep your business space ready to use when operations restart, but reassures staff and your customers that you value their health.
How RATSENSE Can Help
Adopting a proactive rodent management program will be essential to protecting your building now, and ensuring you are ready to restart from the word go once the restrictions are lifted. RATSENSE offers digital rodent management solutions which involves the 24/7 remote monitoring of rodent activity. This system is built on a structure that employs mobile communication standards such as GPRS, 3G and Bluetooth to keep track of rodent activity in real time.
Rather than just employing a reactive approach by using traps and poisons, RATSENSE is a proactive rodent management service that uses data analytics reports to highlight their activity so necessary actions can be taken. We realize that the COVID-19 pandemic has been distressing for your business already; this is why we want to take the stress off from having to battle with rodents when operations resume.