Perish-A-Pest is part of the Cornwall Trading Standards Buy with Confidence scheme, which means that we have been vetted and approved by Trading Standards to ensure that we operate in a legal, honest and fair way. This means that you can use our services with confidence.
National Pest Technicians Association
Perish-A-Pest is a member of the National Pest Technicians Association, ensuring that we are up-to-date with the latest innovations in the industry and good practice, with access to training and certification to ensure that you are getting the best service.
Federation of Small Businesses
Perish-A-Pest is a member of the Federation of Small Businesses, which helps ensure that our business practices are robust, and we are operating within the law regarding our business.
We also have insurance cover up to £5 million, for your peace of mind.
Basis Prompt Register for Professional Pest Controllers.
Perish-A-Pest is a member of the BASIS PROMPT Pest Controllers register, an industry initiative which provides independent proof that a pest controller has received proper training and continues to update their expertise.
Royal Society for Public Health qualified,
Chris, owner of Perish-A-Pest has current Royal Society for Public Health qualifications in the use of poisons for the removal of pests.
BASF produces a special poison which lowers the secondary poisoning risks, and requires users to take a training course before they are allowed to use it.
Chris has undertaken this training.
DBS Checked
All Perish-A-Pest staff are checked by the Disclosure and Barring Service, meaning that we are safe to work with vulnerable people.
This means that you can safely invite us onto your property if you run a school, nursery, care home, community farm or other service at which we might meet children, vulnerable adults or elders.
We would never normally speak with your clients, but have chosen to be DBS checked for your peace of mind.
Animal safety
One of our guiding principles is to not let the creatures suffer, either those that we are removing, or those who live around the area. The best way to get rid of many pest problems is to kill the pest, and where that is necessary, we will do so as humanely as possible, using instant-kill traps or poisons.
Where a prey-animal has been poisoned, for example a rat or a mouse, the residual poison in their system would have almost no effect on a predator animal who ate it, (e.g. cat, dog, fox, owl), due to the size of the prey vs the size of the predator.
We operate to the ‘Think Wildlife’ guidelines for safe use of rodenticides
Lantra
Chris of Perish-A-Pest has undertaken the Level 2 course to allow him to safely use Aluminium Phosphide, which is a controlled substance, only for serious infestations of vertebrates.