Warehousing & logistics
Warehouse and logistics pest control
A warehouse is a large volume of undisturbed space wrapped around a great deal of stock, with doors that open to the outside all day. The pressure is structural rather than behavioural, and it does not respond to cleaning alone.
It is also mostly empty of people, which is why nothing is noticed early. A problem in a distribution building is usually found by a stock check or by an auditor rather than by anybody working there, and by then the cost is not the treatment or even the contamination. It is the pallets that have to be written off and the customer who has to be told why.
So the dominant route in is the building itself rather than anything happening inside it, and proofing that envelope is worth more on a warehouse than anywhere else we work. The alternative is treating an interior that is being restocked from outside every day. The second route is the goods: anything arriving on a pallet arrived from somewhere else, and a problem can be delivered rather than developed. Sites that inspect at goods-in, even briefly, find things weeks earlier than sites that wait for a stock check.
Nightshift already provides non-toxic pest management to packaging warehouses and fresh produce operations, and works to the standards their retail customers impose on them.
How we work this environment
Around shift patterns and around goods-in. Technicians are on shift through the night as standard, so monitoring, treatment and proofing happen when the floor is quiet and the MHE is parked, and there is no out-of-hours premium because nights are simply when we work. For sites running continuous operations we schedule to the quietest window rather than the most convenient one for us. Every visit produces a written report the same day.
The risk profile
What makes this environment different.
The most common finding is a capital fix, not a pest one
Loading doors standing open through a shift is what we write up most often, and no amount of treatment answers it. The fix is strip curtains, air curtains, a rapid-roll door or a proofed threshold, alongside shutter guides, personnel door seals, service penetrations, roof edge and yard drainage.
Activity is not where monitoring is easiest to service
It lives at high bay beams, at the back of pick faces and inside pallet voids, while monitoring naturally gets placed at floor level where a technician can reach it on a round. Finding the first is the job.
Stock loss is the visible cost
Gnaw damage to packaging and contamination of product write off stock directly, and in a food or pharmaceutical supply chain a single contaminated pallet can condemn far more than itself.
Audits are unannounced and pass or fail
Retailer and BRC-aligned audits examine the pest control file as a matter of routine. An incomplete record is a non-conformance regardless of whether an actual pest was ever present.
Racking is perfect harbourage
Pallet racking creates thousands of undisturbed voids at height, and stock rotation rarely disturbs the ones that matter. Infestations establish out of sight and out of reach of routine inspection.
The doors are open all day
Loading bays, shutter doors and dock levellers are permanent entry points during operating hours, which makes proofing and monitoring at the perimeter more important than treatment inside.
Where we look first
The places it actually starts.
- Pallet racking voids and high-level storage
- High bay beams and the back of pick faces
- Loading bays, dock levellers and shutter seals
- Goods-in, quarantine and returns areas
- Waste compaction and external bin compounds
- Mezzanine voids, offices and staff welfare areas
- Roof voids, cladding cavities and service penetrations
- External perimeter, drainage and landscaping
Compliance & evidence
Documentation is prepared for audit rather than for our own files: written reports the same day, trend data across visits, RAMS and COSHH on request, and BRC-aligned support for sites supplying retail. Rodenticide use follows CRRU stewardship and our field biologists advise where a non-toxic approach is appropriate.
Certificates published, not promised
BPCA member M15/1628, CEPA certified to EN 16636, CHAS, SafeContractor and Constructionline, with numbers and expiry dates on our procurement page.
Common questions
Warehousing & logistics, answered.
The questions facilities and operations teams raise most, answered plainly.
Will your reporting satisfy a BRC audit?
Reports are written to serve as due diligence evidence, with each visit, finding, recommendation and action recorded. We can also supply RAMS, COSHH and insurance documentation for the audit pack on request.
Can you monitor without using rodenticide inside the building?
Yes, and for many food and packaging sites that is the right specification. Monitoring, proofing and non-toxic approaches take priority, with rodenticide used in a targeted way and in line with CRRU stewardship.
Do you cover multiple distribution sites?
Yes. Multi-site estates run under one agreement with per-site frequencies set by risk rather than a flat template, one escalation path and consolidated reporting.
Report a problem
Tell us what you have seen, any hour.
Technicians are on shift through the night, so a sighting at two in the morning is dealt with at two in the morning. No hold music, no waiting for the office to open, no answering service taking a message for Monday.
Emergency escalation
Anything that stops you trading: a closure risk, an EHO visit, an infestation in front of guests: is graded as you report it and put straight through to a technician already on shift.
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