What Impact can Flies Have on Your Business?
Building a business takes a while and its downfall only takes a few moments. Like all other pests, houseflies, must not be underestimated and can cause your years of hard work to go in vain.
In fact, houseflies play a more significant role, than other insects, in causing various illnesses among your employees, thereby decreasing the overall efficiency of your work force.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) houseflies are known to spread approximately 65 ailments. So, it may not only be your employees that are at risk but your customers too. Further, how can you expect your brand to gain recognition and respect if you are housing flies even if it is unintentionally?
Learn More about the Potential Threats by House Flies and the Risks They Pose by Reading on Below
The Various Illnesses those Houseflies Bring to the Table
Despite their differences in the way they transmit diseases these insects are still quite efficient in carrying some of the worst illnesses. Along with transmitting foodborne bacteria these insects can be held accountable for illnesses like Typhoid fever, Conjunctivitis, Shigellosis, Cholera, Dysentery, Gastroenteritis, Tuberculosis, and Salmonellosis
Understanding how these insects spread illnesses
House flies can only consume food in liquid form or liquid-like form. Thus, they spew up a fluid made from digestive juices when they come across solid food to convert it into a liquid-like form allowing them to consume the same.
These insects feed on human and animal wastes and usually collect various germs and viruses while doing the same. These pathogens are stored in their digestive system. Both their food preferences and way of digesting solid foods cause various pathogens to be transmitted while they eat or defecate.
Additionally, they also accumulate various pathogens on their hairs legs and bodies and become carriers of viruses when they land or touch various food products.
How you may fall prey to these diseases
While you are most susceptible to these diseases when you consume foods that have been contaminated by these pests, you can also catch the above specified illnesses if a house fly comes in contact with your utensils, an open wound or even your eyes.
Now That You Know the Intensity of the Threat Houseflies Pose, Take a Look at How You can prevent it
Cautionary measures you can take
With these tips, you can drastically reduce the likeliness of houseflies spreading various diseases and infecting your staff and customers.
Practise hygiene for food
Ensure that any raw ingredients you use, especially if you are in the food business, are washed thoroughly before consumption or cooking. Further, have your utensils and food machinery properly cleaned on a regular basis to avoid any build-up of pathogens or attraction for houseflies.
Most of all, it is imperative you comply with the set food standards and regulations to curb any spread of diseases due to these insects.
Take the efforts to avoid breeding grounds
You already know that accumulating or incorrectly disposed garbage/wastes are an open invitation to houseflies along with many other pests.
By practising right disposal of garbage and wastes, especially if you house animals, can help you keep these insects at bay and reduce the amount of pathogens in your business vicinity.
You can also go the extra mile to ensure that your garbage cans are covered with a well-fitting lid avoiding maximum contact with the air around it until it is taken away.
Ensure a pest-free ambience in the washrooms
Along with regular cleaning of your washroom area and its drainage pipes, make certain that the waste from washrooms aren't in regular contact with air increasing the pathogens and the houseflies that are attracted to these pathogens. Have drains covered up and install fly screens to keep these unwanted guests out of your business.
Additionally, in case you house livestock, it is necessary you stack the waste efficiently to reduce the space used and have fly-proof equipment to prevent these insects.
Call in the experts
You know how to run your business and a trained pest control professional knows how to run theirs. With a skilled professional you can resolve housefly issues swiftly by getting expert advice on the best solution for your pest problem. This will not only help you resolve ongoing pest-problems but also help you curb the access these insects have to your business environment.
Protech Pest Control helps you tend to your housefly problems at the earliest by offering same-day services. With modern and the latest technology, you can be sure of a resolution and stop worrying about recurring housefly infestations. Get expert opinion and make sure your business isn't housing these flies anymore. Get in touch for professional inspections at the earliest.
About the Author: Muzi Tsolakis heads Protech Pest control, a well-recommended name for building pest inspection in Melbourne and for flies removal in Melbourne.