Most pest programmes start with a sprayer. The best ones start with a blueprint — because the cheapest pesticide ever devised is a wall, and its most effective application happens before the building exists. If your programme is an invoice for monthly spraying, you are paying forever for a problem that exclusion could have ended.
Why integrated pest management beats the spray cycle
Chemicals alone never win: pests return to the same open drains, unsealed gaps, garbage and standing water. Modern codes demand integrated programmes — exclusion, sanitation, monitoring and evidence-based treatment — with pesticides as the disciplined last resort, not the first reflex.
What the AGS guideline covers
The AGS Hygiene & Sanitation Guidelines for Pest Control are the international normalization of source regulation PHC-C-10, aligned with the FAO/WHO International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management, the WHO Integrated Vector Management framework and EN 16636. Its 34 sections build the whole defence:
- Design and construction for pest exclusion; plan approval and termite pretreatment
- Garbage, harborage, outdoor storage and standing water control
- Monitoring, the evidence rule and pre-treatment surveys
- Pesticide approval, professional use and application discipline; fumigation rules
- Target programmes for rodents, flying and crawling insects, birds and termites
- Records, trend analysis and efficacy verification
The annexes are a field kit in themselves: building proofing specifications with working figures, a programme summary by target pest, a field guide to reading the evidence, a premises inspection checklist, and a pesticide and fumigation safety reference covering the application safety sequence and fumigation control points — plus a jurisdictional adaptation register for local rules.
Who benefits
Pest control firms get a professional, standards-aligned service framework; facility managers get a programme they can specify and audit; authorities get clear roles for operators and occupants.
Get the Guideline
Stop renting relief and start owning prevention. Download the AGS Pest Control guideline — instant download, fully editable Microsoft Word document, ready to become your integrated pest management manual. Like every document in the AGS Technical Guidelines Library, it arrives as a clean, professionally structured file you can rebrand, adapt and issue as your establishment's own controlled document — no waiting, no shipping, no formatting work.
Product: Pest Control — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-05-007).